Fisheries

This week, the North Pacific Fishery Management Council has been looking at ways to cut back on the number of Chinook salmon that get scooped up by commercial trawl boats in the Bering Sea.

Three Southeast representatives want their colleagues to sign on to a campaign to protect the region’s fisheries from British Columbia mines.

Sitka’s Fish-to-Schools program was one of the featured presentations last week at a regional meeting on sustainable food systems.

The new store boasts several new features, including buying and printing your sport fishing and hunting licenses at home.

The defendants moved for dismissal of the charges, asserting that their fishing for king salmon was a religious activity, and that they were entitled to a religious exemption from the emergency orders under the free exercise clause of the Alaska Constitution.

Southeast Alaska’s commercial salmon trollers are heading back into port now that the winter season has closed, thanks to strong catches of king salmon on the outer coast near Sitka.