Alaska Salmon Trollers Could be Beached by Chinook Lawsuit from WA
This is Alaska Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch –
Nearly 1,600 trollers who fish for king salmon in Southeast Alaska could be beached this summer over a lawsuit to protect killer whales – in Puget Sound, Washington.
KCAW/Sitka reports that on April 16 the Wild Fish Conservancy filed an injunction against NOAA Fisheries in the U.S. District Court for Western Washington. The injunction would block the king salmon season scheduled to begin on July 1 until the lawsuit is resolved...
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