North Council Sets Options for Reducing Chum Salmon Bycatch in the Bering Sea
The North Pacific Fisheries Management Council usually meets to address management issues for dozens of species, but last week’s meeting in Anchorage focused only on salmon. The focus of the 11-member panel — with hundreds of visitors from rural Alaska — was almost exclusively on lowering bycatch of chum salmon in the Bering Sea pollock fleet.
More than 280 oral testimonies were given in person or online; nearly 260 written comments were submitted.
The issue of chum salmon bycatch by the industrialized...
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