Fish Board Pushes Meetings to Next Year Due to COVID Concerns
This is Alaska Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch –
The Alaska Board of Fisheries voted unanimously on Monday to not double up its meeting cycle to include two Alaska regions and instead advance them by one year.
The board regulates commercial, sport, subsistence and personal use fisheries in state waters, meaning out to three miles.
It would normally be wrapping up a roster this month that included 275 proposals for Southeast, Prince William Sound and statewide shellfish. But the ongoing Covid pandemic curtailed those plans...
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