OPINION: We Need to Establish Basic Protections for Salmon
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Juneau Empure] Opinion by Joe Mehrkens - September 6, 2018
Joe Mehrkens is a retired forest economist, hydrologist and resident of Petersburg and Juneau.
Wild salmon stocks are under attack from all sides: ocean warming, habitat loss, over exploitation and pollution. While Alaska has enjoyed the benefit of good fisheries management, the cumulative impacts are taking their toll. Both professionals and non-professionals can see it in the watersheds around Southeast and in the salmon returns and harvests. One gillnetter moored across from me said he had only netted ...
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