Category: Recent News

Nominations are now being accepted for the following ATA board seats until April 30th ! 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.

Thank you freshman Representative Himschoot for your sponsorship and tireless work on this important resolution on behalf of our SE economy and fishing families.

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…

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…

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…

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…

Juneau, AK – On Tuesday, the Alaska State Legislature’s House Special Committee on Fisheries received testimony and passed a resolution (HJR 5) that calls for state and federal agencies to defend Southeast Alaska’s troll fishery from a potential closure this year due to…

Please distribute to others affected by the WFC lawsuit.  This alert will go to the Washington State delegation as well so we want our Washington fishermen input. https://secure.ngpvan.com/vmCvG4D0nU6rOJBKLAQnSg2