The plan could close fishing for seven more years and open the door for hatcheries. In villages along the river, tribal leaders say the state has cut them out of the process.
Subsistence
Bill backed by Southeast communities would tighten hunting and fishing residency requirements
The deputy director of Alaska Wildlife Troopers said current residency requirements make it difficult to prosecute people suspected of illegally obtaining resident licenses.
Tribal groups applaud Alaska Native appointments to federal fisheries advisory panel
Amid alarmingly low salmon returns in Western Alaska, calls have grown for tribes to have a greater say in the way fisheries are managed.
Paralytic shellfish poisoning toxin is high in some subsistence harvests, according to Knik Tribe’s data
Shellfish harvests even a quarter-mile away from each other might have very different levels of the PSP toxin.
State’s high court rules against Sitka Tribe of Alaska’s herring claim
The Sitka Tribe of Alaska first sued the state in 2018, alleging that the commercial fishery management put herring stocks and traditional harvesting in jeopardy.
Western Arctic Caribou Herd population decline continues
What was once the largest caribou herd in Alaska has shrunk nearly 70% in twenty years, but it is not the only herd experiencing dramatic drops.