Alaska · Fishing license · Cost
How much is a fishing license in Alaska?
$20 a year if you live here, $100 if you don't. Keeping a king salmon needs the matching stamp, and for visitors it doubles the price of every licence length.
Just passing through? One day costs $15 — the annual pays for itself from about 7 of those.
Every license price
| License | Who | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Annual sport fishing (18 and over) | Resident | $20 |
| Low income sport fishing For residents whose household income is at or below the poverty guidelines. | Resident | $5 |
| Blind resident sport fishing Affidavit required. | Resident | $0.50 |
| Annual king salmon stamp Needed on top of the licence to keep a king salmon. | Resident | $10 |
| Annual sport fishing | Visitor | $100 |
| 14 days | Visitor | $75 |
| Seven days | Visitor | $45 |
| Three days | Visitor | $30 |
| One day | Visitor | $15 |
| King salmon stamp, one day The stamp costs the same as the licence itself — a day for a king is 30 dollars, not 15. | Visitor | $15 |
| King salmon stamp, three days | Visitor | $30 |
| King salmon stamp, seven days | Visitor | $45 |
| King salmon stamp, 14 days | Visitor | $75 |
| Annual king salmon stamp Doubles the cost of a year in Alaska if you want kings. | Visitor | $100 |
Fees inside the price
The king salmon stamp is the item that decides the bill. For visitors it costs exactly what the matching licence costs — a day licence and a day stamp together are 30 dollars, a year with kings is 200.
How long your money lasts
The non-resident annual licence runs for the calendar year in which it is bought. The short ones cover the days they name — and each needs its own king salmon stamp if you want to keep a king.
What we could not pin down
Rather than fill these in from somewhere else, they stay open until ADF&G states them plainly.
- ADF&G's price page does not state the age at which a non-resident needs a licence; only the resident wording (18 and older) was read.
- Whether the non-resident annual licence runs to 31 December or a year from purchase was not unambiguous on the pages read.
