She also plans to keep pushing for a ban on tailings dams that hold back mine waste along cross-border rivers.
Subsistence
Board of Fish will not move Southeast meeting back to Ketchikan
The board voted 4-2 against moving the meeting back to Ketchikan despite dozens of comments urging it to hold the meeting in Southeast Alaska.
Fishing groups hold hope and skepticism before first bycatch task force meeting
The task force will study the impacts of bycatch on what it calls “high-value” state fisheries.
Tribal groups petition federal government to eliminate or limit Bering Sea salmon bycatch
The tribal groups signing the petition mostly represent areas of Alaska where salmon runs have crashed or declined dramatically in recent years.
Federal disasters declared for 14 Alaska fisheries
The disaster declarations included one for the 2020 Southeast Alaska salmon fisheries.
Skagway’s blue mussels were nearly wiped out last year
The Skagway Traditional Council is asking harvesters to avoid blue mussels until the population rebounds.