ADF&G Issues Emergency Ban Prohibiting Chinook Retention in Southeast Alaska for All Users
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [SeafoodNews] by Peggy Parker - August 8, 2017
In a highly unusual, perhaps unprecedented move late yesterday, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game called for a complete ban on Chinook salmon catches throughout Southeast Alaska.
“Due to poor ocean survival conditions for Chinook (king) salmon, which are persisting in Southeast Alaska and British Columbia, extreme management measures are necessary to restrict harvests in coast wide fisheries that are directed at stocks originating in Southeast Alaska, Northern British Columbia, the Fraser River, and the Washington Coast,” said Charles O. Swanton, Deputy Commissioner of...
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