A resolution to protect the Southeast Alaska troll fishery passed in the state Legislature on March 20, with a unanimous vote in the Senate.
calls on state and federal governments to defend Alaska fisheries from a lawsuit filed by the Washington State-based environmental group, the Wild Fish Conservancy.
is that terminating Southeast’s king salmon troll fishery might allow chinook salmon to migrate back down the coast through key hunting grounds of the Southern Resident killer whales. distinct from other groups of killer whales. But according to NOAA Fisheries, the population has been in decline for decades, nowThe resolution to support the troll fishery was introduced by freshman Rep. Rebecca Himschoot of Sitka, who sits on the House Special Committee on Fisheries. It received support across party lines in the Alaska Senate. Himschoot lauded the resolution’s overwhelming bipartisan support in the latest vote.
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