Murkowski, Sullivan, Peltola Denounce NMFS Move to Study Gulf of Alaska Chinook for ESA Listing
All three of Alaska’s representatives in the U.S. Senate strongly denounced last week’s decision by NOAA Fisheries to begin a robust scientific study to determine if Gulf of Alaska Chinook salmon should be added to the Environmental Protection Agency's endangered species list.
NOAA Fisheries’ move was prompted by an 87-page petition filed last December by the Wild Fish Conservancy to list Chinook salmon throughout the Gulf of Alaska as endangered. The petition, described as containing “numerous factual errors, omissions, incomplete references, and...
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