{"id":45544,"date":"2019-03-28T09:35:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/salmon-derby-dates-set\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T16:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:48:08","slug":"salmon-derby-dates-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/2019\/03\/28\/salmon-derby-dates-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Salmon Derby dates set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 73rd annual Golden North Salmon Derby will take place Aug. 16-18 this year, according to an announcement during Wednesday night&rsquo;s Territorial Sportsmen Inc. Salmon Symposium.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goldennorthsalmonderby.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The derby<\/a>, an annual event that happens in August, raises money for scholarships. Since 1953, Territorial Sportsmen has given out more than 300 scholarships totaling $1.7 million. Scholarships range from four-year scholarships for graduating high school seniors to scholarships for graduate study to scholarships for vocational training.<\/p>\n<p>Due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/mystery-of-ocean-survival-experts-trying-to-figure-out-why-salmon-are-dying-at-sea\/\" target=\"_blank\">concerns about the population of chinook (king) <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/mystery-of-ocean-survival-experts-trying-to-figure-out-why-salmon-are-dying-at-sea\/\" target=\"_blank\">salmon<\/a>, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and Territorial Sportsmen do not encourage anglers to target king salmon. Sport fishing king salmon is closed from April 1-June 15, according to ADF&amp;G, but it will be open after then. In 2018, the derby didn&rsquo;t accept king salmon for prizes or to be sold as scholarship fish. Derby Co-Chair Jerry Burnett said Thursday that if king salmon fishing is open at the time, the derby will be accepting kings this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/salmon-derby-winner-finds-good-luck-victory-shocking\/\" target=\"_blank\">The winner of the 2018 derby<\/a>, James McKnight, reeled in a 17.7-pound coho salmon and the $10,000 grand prize.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, Bennett said at the time, there were more than 1,100 derby tickets sold and participants turned in 2,676 cohos that weighed a total of 25,081 pounds. Alaska Glacier Seafoods paid $28,064.40 for the fish, Burnett said at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get ready to chase those salmon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1129,"featured_media":45545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1083,1077],"tags":[104,75,40],"class_list":["post-45544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-outdoors-recreation","category-top-news","tag-fishing","tag-local-news","tag-salmon"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Salmon Derby dates set - Juneau Empire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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