JIM LAVRAKAS — Anchorage Daily News
y ZAZ HOLLANDER
zhollander@adn.com
February 10, 2014
The Alaska Board of Fisheries, (click here) in a key vote Monday, sided with Mat-Su
guides and fish experts pleading for restrictions on Cook Inlet's
commercial drift gillnet fleet to save flagging Valley runs....
...Several members described a sense of urgency given low numbers of Susitna River sockeye -- a priority because biologists deem them at-risk - but also weak runs of coho bound for once-popular fishing spots like the Little Susitna River and Jim Creek.
Many Valley residents drive to the Kenai Peninsula to fill their freezers these days, said board chair Karl Johnstone, an Anchorage resident and retired Alaska Superior Court judge.
"The population of this area has tried to make their voices heard at this meeting," Johnstone said. "We had an enormous amount of public comment."...
No?
Yeah sure, no one wants to discuss this fishery crisis in Cook Inlet?
I mean I up for the 'talk' as long as anyone wants to realize how much subsistence fishing goes on in Alaska.
Heck, if I had all the money these companies have I could have brought plenty of call girls, dope and booze to the US Bureau of Mining and Mineral Management, too. The country would have been better off for it.
...Several members described a sense of urgency given low numbers of Susitna River sockeye -- a priority because biologists deem them at-risk - but also weak runs of coho bound for once-popular fishing spots like the Little Susitna River and Jim Creek.
Many Valley residents drive to the Kenai Peninsula to fill their freezers these days, said board chair Karl Johnstone, an Anchorage resident and retired Alaska Superior Court judge.
"The population of this area has tried to make their voices heard at this meeting," Johnstone said. "We had an enormous amount of public comment."...
No?
Yeah sure, no one wants to discuss this fishery crisis in Cook Inlet?
I mean I up for the 'talk' as long as anyone wants to realize how much subsistence fishing goes on in Alaska.
Heck, if I had all the money these companies have I could have brought plenty of call girls, dope and booze to the US Bureau of Mining and Mineral Management, too. The country would have been better off for it.
