Gotta give the Dunleavy Administration credit for being the first to try and get to the bottom of one of Alaska’s most troubling fishing issues: bycatch.
The governor in November 2021 created an Alaska Bycatch Review Task Force (ABRT) “to help better understand unintended bycatch of high value fishery resources in State and federal waters.”
He defined bycatch as “fish which are harvested in a fishery but are not sold or kept.”
The 13-member group will issue a final report based on those better understandings in November 2022.
“Once the structure of the taskforce is framed, it will be a good ro...
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