This weekend’s closure may have marked the first time a regulation allowing state closures was used in Bristol Bay.
In Bristol Bay’s Egegik district, it’s not uncommon to see some boats fishing in areas of the fishery deemed illegal by the state. But this year seemed particularly bad, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
“More and more reports come in. Because there’s less enforcement going on overall, and we need to try to protect stocks that are going north and south or even into Egegik,” Tiernan said.“Efforts that have been made in the past have not changed activities. So I felt like it was time to try something new,” Tiernan said.
But some fishermen would prefer to get rid of district lines entirely and proposed that to the state Board of Fish at their last meeting. Tiernan says Bristol Bay’s fishery was designed for each river to be fished separately, so the Board of Fish shot down that suggestion. “For whatever reason, we’re not having any flybys or any enforcement. And people just kept pushing things further and further and further,” Johnson said.
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