Larger communities located within the KPMA include Kenai and Soldotna. Smaller communities are Hope, Cooper Landing, Moose Pass and Sterling. This management area is linked to the state's highway system via the Sterling and Seward Highways which provide sport anglers access to many of the area's major fisheries. Anglers can target four species of North Pacific salmon, pink, coho, sockeye and chinook. Fisheries for these species occur primarily in fresh and to a lesser degree in saltwater.
Anglers can also target salmon stocked into various landlocked lakes.
Popular fisheries also occur on the area's anadromous stocks of Dolly Varden, steelhead trout, and smelt. Resident stocks of rainbow trout and lake trout also support popular sport fisheries. Less popular fisheries occur on resident stocks of Arctic grayling and northern pike. Marine sport fisheries offer more limited opportunities. Adjacent to the mouths of the Kenai and Kasilof River and on the west side of Cook Inlet small numbers of anglers target halibut, razor clams and several species of hardshell clams.