Trawl stakeholders will be proposing improvements to existing performance standards with the focus on crab bycatch.
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NOAA Fisheries announces funding for 2024 bycatch reduction projects
AK 2023 winners: UW – reducing halibut bycatch in P-cod bottom trawl fishery; IPHC – minimizing whale takes in longline fisheries.
10 killer whales taken as trawler bycatch – Where’s the outrage?
NOAA is “evaluating” the trawler whale takes. Any other fisherman/gear would immediately be arrested and fined thousands of dollars.
State of AK, NPFMC oppose revisions to fishing laws, including bycatch regs
The word ‘bycatch’ does not even appear in the State of AK’s testimony to NOAA about its intent to modernize fishing regs.
Trawlers give new meaning to “getting whaled”
NOAA says it’s “unclear” about lethal takes of orcas by trawlers. “No comment.”
Dunleavy crony Porcaro, recipient of a $136,000 state fish job, says ‘they’ didn’t want someone with knowledge of fish”
Porcaro portrayed his lack of fishing knowledge as a plus saying, “They’re looking for somebody that had a lot of broad experience.”
National Seafood Strategy unveiled by NOAA
Goals target sustainable production, increase in US aquaculture, market access. Huge inequities remain between $$ for farmers, fishermen.
AK Bycatch Advisory Council sets Sept. meeting; Bycatch Town Hall at Kodiak
Salmon and crab bycatch research, management top the meeting agenda.
New ‘Ocean Justice Strategy’ draws deluge of public comments
Gov’t aims for more “equity” in ocean benefits and “sharing the burdens” of negative impacts by human activities.
Halibut catches sluggish despite high prices; charter ops beached “to protect the resource”
AK communities get clipped to protect halibut stock while trawl bycatch increases, per IPHC.