Commentary: Changing Course on Climate Change
John Sackton’s op-ed about climate change and fisheries, Winding Glass: Climate Change Turns Fisheries Sustainability on its Head, hit me hard, as I expect it did most fishermen. With these words: "the reality is that many fisheries are vulnerable to climate-induced collapse over the next decade,” he ...
Linda Behnken, a longliner since 1982, is the Executive Director of the Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association and recipient of the 25th Heinz Award for the Environment. In recent years she established the Fishery Conservation Network, the Young Fisherman’s Initiative, and the Alaska Sustainable Fisheries Trust.
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