Kings in short supply in Southeast
Fri, April 11, 2008
Posted in Alaska News
The lowest king salmon harvest quota in nearly a decade means fewer opportunities for southeast sport anglers this season. It could also pose a big problem for an annual salmon derby in Juneau unless fisheries managers intervene with an exception.
Matt Lichtenstein, KFSK - Petersburg
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Can someone tell me why sport and personal use anglers are the first ones to be restricted? Shouldn’t the largest user of the resource (and the biggest hog of allocation) be the first to take major cuts?
I guess no fishing on the west coast and a 50 percent reduction in king salmon harvest in alaska doesn’t reperesent restrictions to some.
No, commercial fishermen are being restricted, I agree… but the SE Alaska King Salmon Management Plan - as written by the Chinook Technical Committee and adopted by the BoF - is very clear in that trollers, then gilnetters, THEN sportsmen, THEN personal use, THEN subsistence fishermen should be cut out when abundance gets low. The new Sport regulations create an effective 2 month closure to the harvest of King Salmon in SE Alaska, yet commercial fishermen will still get fishing seasons of historical length in SE AK.
A reduction in the quota one harvests is one thing, but to begin restricting gear and closing dates mid-season (without corresponding changes to the commercials) flies in the face of the Alaska constitution. These fish are a PUBLIC RESOURCE. Why can commercial fishermen (less than 5% of the people in the state) access, harvest, use and sell over 80% of the resource while you and I (and the other 95+% of the folks in the state) are restricted so heavily?