While meeting in Ketchikan in late January and early February, members of the Alaska Board of Fisheries will hear 11 proposals that request changes to state regulations for the commercial dive harvest fisheries that primarily target sea cucumbers, geoduck clams and sea urchins across Southeast Alaska.
All 11 proposals come from commercial dive fishermen, many of whom are concerned that the dive fisheries are faltering as sea otters are preying on species like geoduck and sea urchins.
The state in 1965 released 412 sea otters on outer coast of Southeast, and the repopulated species boomed in th...
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