Opinion: Coverage of Trawling’s Role in Alaska Halibut Decline Was a Public Service
As a longtime halibut charter fisherman and small-business owner, I want to thank the Anchorage Daily News — and reporter Hal Bernton, in partnership with The Seattle Times and Northern Journal — for the recent coverage of record-low halibut numbers and the role trawling plays in these declines. For those of us on the water every day, your reporting reflects what we’ve been seeing firsthand: fewer fish, shrinking opportunities and mounting pressure on small operators who depend on a healthy halibut fishery to make a living...
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