Nominations are now being accepted for the following ATA board seats until August 20th ! The open seats for nominations are: Please contact ATA via the mail, or email or phone call to nominate a troller for the ATA board.
Month: March 2023
HJR 5 passed the Alaska State Legislature 3/20/23 and will be on the Governor’s desk soon.
Thank you freshman Representative Himschoot for your sponsorship and tireless work on this important resolution on behalf of our SE economy and fishing families.
Call for Volunteers to participate in a pilot project for the SE AK Salmon Troll Fishery!
We’re looking for 10 trollers to participate in a pilot project for an Electronic Logbook for the troll fishery to help provide valuable data to fishery management, research and the fleet. The paper version of this program ran between 1976-1991 and…
LAWSUIT UPDATE:
March 14, 2023 Message from ATA President Matt Donohoe Hello Trollers, When the self-serving, opportunistic, serial litigant Wild Fish Conservancy (WFC) first brought suit in 2020 to close our Southeast Alaska (SEAK) hook and line troll fishery the world seemed…
In the News…
What researchers learned studying PNW orcas hunting for salmon Seattle Times by Isabella Breda – March 13, 2023 In a first-of-its-kind study of the hunting behaviors of salmon-eating orcas, researchers found stark differences in two populations of killer whales that may have implications…
ATA Legal Fund Contributors From: Municipalities, Businesses and Organization
City and Business Legal contributions updated as of 3/22/23Municipalities / Businesses / Organizations Petersburg 2,500 Sitka 5,000 Sitka Salmon Shares 2,500 SEAGO 10,000 City of Craig 5,000 ALFA (+3000 in-kind since) 2,000 NSRAA (of which $75k is recent) 100,000 Chinook…