2023 Sitka Herring Harvest Projected at 30k Tons While Population Model Has Its Day In Court
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game announced a guideline harvest level (GHL) for the 2023 Sitka Sound sac roe herring fishery of 30,124 tons on December 12, 2022. Four days later, oral arguments were heard before the Alaska Supreme Court about an independent scientific review of the state’s population model that was withheld from the Board of Fish, the panel that decides herring regulations, by ADF&G.
The two have little to do with each other in terms of the upcoming season (which ...
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