Alaska's Chinook Researchers Limited to Just 12 Projects Under Budget Cuts (Fish Radio)
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Fish Radio with Laine Welch] August 26, 2015
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch – Funding for Chinook salmon research gets slashed. More after this
Chinook Salmon Research was a casualty of this year’s budget cuts - the 5 year, $30 million dollar Initiative launched two years ago as a way to find out why Chinook stocks have been declining since 2007. It covered three dozen projects in 12 major rivers from Southeast to the Yukon. Now it’s been winnowed to about one dozen projects.
They’re kinda the key projects that we’re trying to see some really interesting results on that we want to keep them living as long as we can with the hope that another appropriation will be coming down the pike.
Ed Jones is a coordinator with the state Sport Fish Division and oversees the Chinook research team...
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