sportfishing

Before the shutdown, Jared Davis used to earn much of his income leading sportfishing tours out of Sausalito on his 56-foot boat Salty Lady.

JUNEAU, Alaska — A bill before the Alaska House Resources Committee would tighten residency requirements for sportfishing, hunting and trapping licenses.

The multiyear experiment reflects the changes facing sportfishing as rivers, streams, lakes and ponds warm.

Just as she, too, began to give up, the skipper of a commercial sportfishing boat spotted an orange smudge bobbing in the water through his binoculars.

Marine conservation and sportfishing groups called their nets “curtains of death” and pressed for elimination of the gear.