“This year’s quota shines a bright light on a treaty agreement that is not working for Southeast Chinook fishermen and communities,” Dale Kelley, executive director of the association, told the newspaper.
“For over 30 years trollers have paid the price of habitat destruction in the Pacific Northwest,” Kelley said. “The stocks we’ve worked hard to rebuild are now returning in record numbers, yet Alaska is being held to a pitifully low quota that failed to recognize that abundance. Trollers are losing faith that they will ever see a fair shake in this process.”
The lower cap will add up to about a $12 million loss for Southeast Alaska Chinook harvesters, Charlie Swanton, deputy commissioner of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, told the newspaper.
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