ak-chinook-troll-fishery-ruling-preserves-orca-prey-initiative
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Onefish is right. Up until now - Alaska has largely done and gotten what they wanted - and the remaining, returning adult fish not caught in Alaska swim South to BC and the West Coast of the Continental US.
In 1997, when Alaska wouldn't re-sign the Pacific Salmon Treaty that ended in 1994 because they wanted more fish and the "watershed of origin" to no longer apply to allocation - it blew up into the "Alaska-Canada Salmon "War" of 1997:
www.nytimes.com
en.wikipedia.org
And here we are 26 years later. Washington, Oregon, and California are also still at the end of the line - receiving the "dregs" that make it past the Alaska fisheries. It is to their benefit also that Alaska lets more fish swim South.
Here's Terry Glavin's take on it from last summer:
nationalpost.com
In 1997, when Alaska wouldn't re-sign the Pacific Salmon Treaty that ended in 1994 because they wanted more fish and the "watershed of origin" to no longer apply to allocation - it blew up into the "Alaska-Canada Salmon "War" of 1997:
Canadians End Blockade In Salmon-Fishing Dispute (Published 1997)
Canadian fishermen end three-day blockade of Alaskan ferry in British Colombia, which was undertaken to underscore their charge that Alaskan fishermen have taken three to four times as much salmon during current season as they are allowed under 12-year-old treaty; US officials and fishermen deny...
Pacific Salmon War - Wikipedia
And here we are 26 years later. Washington, Oregon, and California are also still at the end of the line - receiving the "dregs" that make it past the Alaska fisheries. It is to their benefit also that Alaska lets more fish swim South.
Here's Terry Glavin's take on it from last summer:
Terry Glavin: Alaska's salmon bounty coming at B.C.'s expense
But Canada's foreign affairs department remains clueless
from the article
"Last summer was Alaska’s third most productive salmon season in history. A big part of the Alaska catch was chinook salmon. Almost all the chinook caught in Alaska — 90 percent of them — were chinook bound for rivers in B.C., Washington and Oregon."
So nice of everybody south of Alaska to conserve all the fish for them.
"Last summer was Alaska’s third most productive salmon season in history. A big part of the Alaska catch was chinook salmon. Almost all the chinook caught in Alaska — 90 percent of them — were chinook bound for rivers in B.C., Washington and Oregon."
So nice of everybody south of Alaska to conserve all the fish for them.
ziggy
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Ain’t that the truth.
Steplift
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Same goes for the Nass, Stikine & Tahltan it's a crime what they do.
Seattle-based reporter:
www.seattletimes.com
To aid the killer whales, the real apex predator gets some pushback
Cutting off our own fishing to save the orcas was considered unthinkable four years ago, as columnist Danny Westneat found out. But now the courts are saying we ought to try it.
www.seattletimes.com
cuttlefish
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Three Alaska trollers contemplate a summer without chinook - KCAW
Without a successful stay, appeal, or other eleventh-hour legal relief, Alaska trollers will be prohibited from catching king salmon this coming season. The court ruling will affect every troller professionally, of course, but there will also be grief and uncertainty in other aspects of their...
www.kcaw.org
BC judge rules all rec fishing in BC closes for chinook retention for conservation measures.........................Three Alaska trollers contemplate a summer without chinook - KCAW
Without a successful stay, appeal, or other eleventh-hour legal relief, Alaska trollers will be prohibited from catching king salmon this coming season. The court ruling will affect every troller professionally, of course, but there will also be grief and uncertainty in other aspects of their...
Fairly or unfairly that is just what happened to those guys/gals in SE Alaska.
We are all pleased as it is the "other guy" who took it in the ear this time.
No easy answers and I doubt the whole story has been written re SE Alaska.
In the US individual states have more power than the entire country of Canada in negotiations, even against each other.
The only outlier are the endangered species laws.
If Washington state had a beef with Alaska they would have more pull than BC or Canada.
There still is the Dixon Strait issue.
Alaska, as a state, refuses to acknowledge an international boundary agreed to in 1840 and shown on all federal US maps.
The Alaskan judge does not stop recreational fishing I don't think, I haven't read the full decision so I can't say.
As far as the "other guy" goes haven't the commercial and recreational guys in BC and the southern states been hit with the fishing restrictions that are worse than what the Alaskan judge ruled?
Starving Orcas and the Fate of Alaska’s Disappearing King Salmon
With the fish numbers at historic lows, scientists, chefs and others are asking whether we should be eating them anymore, and what it means for the future of all wild salmon.
Killer whale deaths in Alaska trawl harvests prompt investigations and spark anger - Alaska Beacon
This year's high death toll for orcas caught in trawl gear raises questions about ocean conditions and fishing practices.
alaskabeacon.com
Opportunistic orcas have developed a new feeding behavior that appears to be killing them
More orcas have died entangled in fishing gear in Alaska this year than in previous years, which may be linked to a "new behavior" where they feed in front of ascending fishing nets.
www.livescience.com
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