Facility Activities

Alaskan subsistence hunting and fishing
The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980 provides access to many federal public lands in Alaska for rural residents to practice a subsistence way of life.
Hunting

The 290,000-acre Becharof Lake on the refuge serves as a nursery for the world's second largest run of sockeye salmon. The Bristol Bay commercial fishery takes 6 million fish each year from this tremendous salmon run. Four other species of salmon spawn in the waters of Becharof National Wildlife...

Fishing

Access by commercial air is necessary to King Salmon, Port Heiden, Kodiak and Cold Bay, and then charter aircraft to the remote locations of Becharof National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge is along the southeastern two-thirds of the Alaska Peninsula, encompassing the Aleutian Range. All five...