Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Dipnetters haul a salmon onto the north Kenai beach on Wednesday, July 27, 2016 in Kenai, Alaska. The popular Kenai River personal use dipnet fishery, which opened July 10, will close Sunday for the year. Thousands of Alaskans have come to the beaches and camped in tents, tarps and RVs to get their annual limit of sockeye salmon from the Kenai River.

Photo by Elizabeth Earl/Peninsula Clarion Dipnetters haul a salmon onto the north Kenai beach on Wednesday, July 27, 2016 in Kenai, Alaska. The popular Kenai River personal use dipnet fishery, which opened July 10, will close Sunday for the year. Thousands of Alaskans have come to the beaches and camped in tents, tarps and RVs to get their annual limit of sockeye salmon from the Kenai River.

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