Assembly calls on Board of Fish to reject proposal to cut hatchery chum and pink salmon by 25 percent

On Monday the Petersburg Borough Assembly unanimously adopted a resolution opposing a proposal coming before the Board of Fish two months from now which seeks to reduce the production of hatchery chum and hatchery pink salmon in Southeast Alaska by 25 percent.

Max Worhatch, a Petersburg commercial salmon fisherman, addressed the assembly at the start of Monday’s meeting “to voice the commercial fishing industry’s support of a resolution to oppose the Board of Fish Proposal 156.”

“Hatchery production has long been an important element of the viability of the 74 gillnetters, 53 seiners, and 63 t...