Cook Inlet's Roland Maw Pulls Name From Alaska Fish Board Consideration
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Alaska Dispatch News] by Pat Forgey - February 23, 2015
Kenai River fish wars have claimed another Fish Board nominee, this time Roland Maw, named to the board by Gov. Bill Walker. Maw withdrew his name from consideration Friday after facing opposition.
He is former executive director of a commercial fishing group, the United Cook Inlet Drift Association, and a retired drift gillnet fisherman.
In 2013, an Alaska Board of Fisheries member, Vince Webster, was rejected for reappointment by the Legislature after sportfishing groups complained. He was a commercial setnet fisherman...
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