NPFMC To Consider Reducing Salmon Bycatch Caps for Bering Sea Pollock Trawlers
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [KUCB] by David Bendinger - January 28, 2015
After several years of poor salmon returns along the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers, federal managers are considering new ways to cut back on salmon bycatch in the commercial pollock fishery.
The North Pacific Fishery Management Council will hold a statewide teleconference on Wednesday to discuss their options for reducing bycatch in the Bering Sea.
"We’re hosting this teleconference to allow people the opportunity to hear about the alternatives that are being considered,” says NPFMC staff member Steve MacLean. “To learn something about the council process and how they can become involved in that council process, and then to voice questions and concerns they might have about the action currently being evaluated.”
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