Department of Commerce Disaster Declarations Include West Coast, AK Salmon Fisheries
While Alaska's snow and king crab fisheries have garnered much attention lately, the U.S. Department of Commerce's latest notification of fishery disaster declarations covered many salmon fisheries as well, some that have been pending for a couple years or more.
Those fisheries include:
- the 2021 Alaska Kuskokwim River Salmon, Norton Sound Chum and Coho Salmon fisheries;
- the 2021 Chignik salmon fishery;
- the 2020 Washington ocean salmon fisheries;
- the 2020 Copper River/Prince William Sound coho and pink salmon fisheries; and
- the 2019 Washington Columbia River, Willapa Bay and ...
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