Federal Subsistence Board keeps State Management in Yukon-Kuskokwim Area For Now
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [ALASKA JOURNAL OF COMMERCE] By DJ Summers - April 23, 2015
With the January approval of subsistence gillnets on the Kenai River looming in the background, state and federal workers expressed a desire to cooperate to stave off a clutch of wide-ranging proposed federal fishery management takeovers.
Yukon River salmon fisheries will remain under state management following a Federal Subsistence Board work session April 16 in Anchorage. The board voted unanimously against a special action request to move all Yukon River salmon stocks into federal management. Some board members and villagers argued that the state’s current management was effective, and that a federal closures and management would be unnecessary.
The board also unanimously voted to take no action on five related special action requests on Yukon salmon, including a request to close chinook salmon fishing...
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