Bycatch rates are relatively low, but because trawlers catch so much of their target species, the unintended harvest adds up.
"Andy Mezirow"
Commercial and subsistence harvesters speak out against trawler bycatch of chinook salmon
Federal fisheries data shows trawlers in the North Pacific took about a tenth of the king salmon caught by Alaska’s commercial salmon fleet last year.
Worry for commercial fishermen and Kenai Peninsula communities after Cook Inlet fishery closure
Federal managers voted to close a huge swath of Upper Cook Inlet to commercial salmon fishing, capping a two-year fight over the fate of the fishery and its 500 permit-holders.