The plan could close fishing for seven more years and open the door for hatcheries. In villages along the river, tribal leaders say the state has cut them out of the process.
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Judge reinstates Kachemak Bay’s jet ski ban
After a two-year-long lawsuit, personal watercraft like Jet Skis are once again banned on Kachemak Bay.
Alaska Federation of Natives joins feds’ suit against state over rural subsistence priority
The Alaska Federation of Natives is the latest party to side with the federal government. A federal judge last week granted AFN’s request to intervene in the case.
Southeast Alaska wolves are not threatened or endangered, federal agency concludes
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has again rejected a request to put them on the Endangered Species List.
‘We can go fishing’: Appeals court says Southeast Alaska troll fishery can open this summer
A federal appeals panel issued a last-second ruling, reversing a lower court ruling that would have kept the $85 million industry off the water.
Judge throws out lawsuit accusing Alaska of mismanaging Yukon, Kuskokwim salmon fisheries
That principle requires the state to manage its resources sustainably, and the plaintiff had argued that salmon declines in Western and Interior Alaska were evidence that the state was failing to meet its constitutional obligation.
Cook Inlet fishermen sue over set-net closures
The set-netters were shut down early this year for the fourth year in a row.
Federal government sues state over Kuskokwim salmon fishing rules
The conflict over subsistence has been brewing for a few decades.
Dunleavy administration announces formation of bycatch task force
Federal bycatch data shows trawl fisheries in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska this year have caught tens of thousands of chinook salmon, millions of pounds of halibut and hundreds of thousands of crabs.
Feds to consider protections for Southeast Alaska’s wolves
The agency in 2016 declined to list the species as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act.