2/10/2024 0 Comments Chinook alaska fishing planet![]() O’Malley: Right, so Alaska’s fishery, this fishery, these fish are managed with an international treaty. Miller : No, this is important, and it’s interesting because we’ve talked a lot about the Columbia River runs or other Oregon or Washington runs, but not too much about the way they could intersect out in the ocean with Alaskan runs. Stop me if this is getting too technical. In order to open that fishery, Alaska has to just talk about how it would mitigate the loss of any of the fish that might be endangered. ![]() So, in that population of millions of fish that come up into the Gulf of Alaska, mainly in the part of their life when they’re growing, there are a few stocks that are endangered. They’re coming from places in Washington and Oregon that have had really serious habitat problems, mostly because of dams, but there are lots of other problems too. But the king salmon that are the subject of this suit come from the Pacific Northwest mainly. Most of the fish that fishermen are catching in Alaska come from streams in Alaska, and everybody knows salmon are born in streams, they leave fresh water or they go out into the ocean for a period of time and come back. It’s a pretty technical lawsuit that has to do with Alaska’s ability to operate a fishery that could incidentally catch some salmon that are endangered from Pacific Northwest rivers. Why did the Wild Fish Conservancy bring it? Miller : I want to start with this legal challenge that threatened to prevent Alaska’s king salmon fishery from opening at the beginning of this month. She recently wrote an article for The New York Times about the decline of Chinook and she joins us now. Julia O’Malley is a third generation Alaskan and a freelance journalist based in Anchorage. The Seattle based nonprofit sued to prevent the fishery from operating this year. Chinook or king salmon are the primary food source for an endangered population of orcas in the Puget Sound. Earlier this month, a panel of judges for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals allowed the Chinook salmon season in Alaska to open for the summer while it considers arguments in a lawsuit filed by the Wild Fish Conservancy. ![]() This transcript was created by a computer and edited by a volunteer.ĭave Miller : From the Gert Boyle Studio at OPB, this is Think Out Loud. ![]()
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