Alaskan Lawmakers Push to Get Personal Use Fisheries Top Harvest Priority (Fish Radio)
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Fish Radio with Laine Welch] March 24, 2015
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch –A personal use priority for salmon gains favor from Alaska lawmakers. More after this
Seven times is the charm for building momentum on a measure that aims to give personal use, or PU fisheries, a priority over commercial and sport users. As it stands now, the three fisheries all are on equal footing in the eyes and actions of state managers.
The priority shift has been introduced during each of the last seven legislative sessions by (now) Senator Bill Stoltze of Chugiak, but it has never made it past a first hearing – until now...
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