Kuskokwim Tribes and Feds Clash Over Management Needed to Protect 2018 Chinook Salmon Run
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [SeafoodNews] - May 31, 2018
In back-to-back meetings on Tuesday, the Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission pleaded their case to shift management of the river’s salmon fisheries from state to federal a few weeks early to protect the incoming king salmon., but Ken Stahlnecker, who manages the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge, said the few hundred kings that would be taken would have a “fairly minor” impact on the continued viability of the Chinook salmon population, according to reporter Anna Rose ...
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