NPFMC Moves Forward With Further Limits on Chum Salmon Bycatch In Bering Sea Pollock Fleet
Spurred by a flood of testimony from Western Alaska Tribes, and a detailed recommendation from their own advisory panel of industry stakeholders, the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council revised their alternatives to reduced chum salmon bycatch in the Bering Sea pollock fleet.
The needle the federal panel is trying to thread would reduce the number of chum salmon during the pollock fishery’s B season — June through October — which is also when Western Alaska chum salmon are returning to their spawning grounds in the Yukon and ...
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