Alaske troll fishing shut down!

Stonedfish said:
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The thing about this is that NOAA agrees that the fishery adversely affects Columbia and PS stocks and SRKW. They just say the mitigation (more hatchery releases) will work. I guess that remains to be seen. A precautionary approach would be chill out on the fishery while the appeals and additional scrutiny gets sorted out, and while some data can be collected on whether or not the mitigation is sufficient. Except, as it is now, when there are more fish in the ocean, and the fishing is good, the trollers fish more and catch more fish. So, that’s just one of a number of challenges for the mitigation to overcome in order for it to actually be effective.
 
Matt B said:
The thing about this is that NOAA agrees that the fishery adversely affects Columbia and PS stocks and SRKW. They just say the mitigation (more hatchery releases) will work. I guess that remains to be seen. A precautionary approach would be chill out on the fishery while the appeals and additional scrutiny gets sorted out, and while some data can be collected on whether or not the mitigation is sufficient. Except, as it is now, when there are more fish in the ocean, and the fishing is good, the trollers fish more and catch more fish. So, that’s just one of a number of challenges for the mitigation to overcome in order for it to actually be effective.
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Yup, they fish and have an awesome season, then we get shut down here on the Columbia. Love our current system :D
 
Evan B said:
Just so everyone knows, original post/article was from early May.
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Well, it felt good while it lasted but only took less than two months to get reversed.
Unfortunately, we are at the bottom of the syphon when it comes to chinook that travel north. We get the crumbs that return after SE Alaska and BC get their share of our fish.
SF
 
Matt B said:
They just say the mitigation (more hatchery releases) will work.
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Yeah, about those hatchery mitigation salmon, who pays to produce them? The AK fishermen? Not likely. It's easy for NMFS to say, as government agencies are notoriously immune from sorting the who pays for what and for whom scenario. Salmon fishing is a massive welfare scheme where commercial fishermen feed at the public trough. Why do we pay for this nonsense?

Oh, and the SRKW are more likely than not unrecoverable. I believe that decisions made decades ago inadvertently determined their fate. We're just spending money on recovery efforts to make ourselves feel better about their eventual extinction.
 
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