A company has sent plastic fishing nets destined for the landfill to recyclers for the past 7 years and began collecting nets from Homer and Kenai this year; fishing is steadily improving in the southern Kenai Peninsula and lower Cook Inlet, according to a release from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game Thursday; and volunteers and nonprofits gathered along a stretch of the Kenai River last weekend [06/09] to revegetate an eroded section of river bank.