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April 21, 2020 In a unanimous vote last night, the ATA board voted to insert itself into the defense of the lawsuit filed in mid-March and its subsequent injunction against King salmon fishing via NMFS, and the troll fishery specifically.…
An injunction to halt all King salmon trolling effective July 1, 2020 was filed yesterday in federal court by Wild Fish Conservancy (WFC). This action was added on top of the WFC lawsuit brought against NMFS which names troll interception…
Alaska Trollers Association Email Updates
According to Thomas Koloski who works for the State on Homeland Security matters and was referred to in the UFA bulletin…. “Plan development” only applies to non-residents or folks coming up to fish or work in processing facilities. There is a 14…
It’s nothing short of amazing that the Wild Fish Conservancy folks have chosen our fishery as the source of their concerns. Estimating toxics loadings to the Lake Washington WatershedKingcounty.gov – November 2, 2016 Fish containing polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) can pose…
Alaska Trollers Association Email Updates
As a result of a lawsuit brought in March of 2018 by the Center for Biological Diversity specifying critical habitat designation for the ESA-listed Mexico and Western North Pacific subpopulations of Humpback whales, NMFS has proposed designating an area the…
Things went well enough at the Board Work Session October 23 & 24 in Anchorage. ATA submitted comments on ACR 1 through 3. ACR 1 was supported by ATA. It will make a regulation change to allow for Chum trolling…