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Handling Your Fish
Handle Your Fish With Care!!
Please help provide more money for scholarships by taking care of your fish!
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The following guidelines have been provided by the Alaska Department of Fish & Game for keeping your fish in the best possible condition so the maximum value is retained.
Do everything possible to preserve the quality of your fish:
- DO NOT clean your fish*!! Turn in your fish IN THE ROUND!
- Keep them moist and cool.
- Please ice your fish in a slush mixture of 1/3 ice to 2/3 Sea Water (Ice is available at all weigh-in stations and Tee Harbor.)
- Please do not put fish in plastic bags. Use wet burlap if you do not have ice.
- Turn in your fish as soon as possible.
* State of Alaska, Department of Environmental Conservation regulations do not allow cleaned fish to be accepted by the Derby.