Alaska Board of Fish Ends Week-Long Meeting with Few Happy Fishermen
In one of the most difficult fisheries management challenges -- allocating multi-stock salmon runs over time and areas hundreds of miles away -- the seven-member Board of Fisheries deliberated for a full week on everything from management details to legal obligations to manage stocks for all areas. In the end, one proposal was adopted that will allow a 76-hour no-fishing window in Area M that is designed to allow chum salmon to reach Western Alaska rivers.
The chum run in the Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim area of ...
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