State Wants US Supreme Court to Hear Battle Over Salmon and Subsistence on Southwest Alaska River
The state is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take up its fight with the federal government over salmon management on the Kuskokwim River in Southwest Alaska.
Alaska Attorney General Stephen Cox on Monday petitioned the court to hear the case.
The state asserts that the issue is a matter of state control over “public lands” in navigable rivers as they flow through federal conservation areas, according to a statement from the Alaska Department of Law on Monday...
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