As salmon runs falter and Western Alaska villagers suffer, some worry that measures to reduce bycatch will be too incremental and slow to provide meaningful help. Via AlaskaBeacon
Fishing boats line the dock in Kodiak’s St. Paul Harbor on Oct. 3, 2022. One recommendation being considered by the Alaska Bycatch Review Task Force is a conversion to a quota-share “rationalization” system for Gulf of Alaska trawlers to encourage more careful harvesting. But the idea has been controversial in Kodiak and other Gulf of Alaska towns. , the unintended at-sea harvest of non-target species, the stakes in Alaska are high.
Stakes are also high for the commercial industry and for communities that depend on trawling, representatives said. Trawling is a term for fishing with a large, wide net that a ship drags, often to harvest groundfish near the sea bottom. The Alaska Bycatch Review Task Force, created by Gov. Mike Dunleavy last November, is due to release its final report by the end of next month. At least two additional meetings are to be held between now and then.consensus recommendations
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