The Washington-based Wild Fish Conservancy plans to ask the federal government to list Southeast Alaska, Southwest Alaska and Cook Inlet king salmon under the Endangered Species Act. (Via the Northern Journal)
Two commercial troll fishing boats pass each other on June 2, 2020, at Mountain Point in Ketchikan
The organization’s critics, however, sharply disagree, saying the hook-and-line troll fishermen have reduced their harvests without stemming the orcas’ decline. Those critics argue that habitat destruction and pollutants in Puget Sound, off Seattle, are driving the orcas’ decline — not to mention other, big-picture factors like warming ocean waters and dams on Pacific Northwest rivers.
“It’s infuriating and it’s depressing. It makes all of us that do conservation work look like assholes,” Tim Bristol, executive director of the conservation group SalmonState, said in a phone interview. “They’re singling out, probably, the one thing that’s easiest to single out: the directed harvest of salmon. But to think that’s the root cause of the problem is not a responsible, reasonable or mature approach to dealing with declines in chinook populations.
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