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Draggers in the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska bycaught nearly 2,000 king salmon between September 19th and 26th.

The 2026 halibut trawl bycatch has reached nearly 4 million pounds. Comment to the North Pacific Fishery Management Council to lower the Gulf of Alaska halibut trawl bycatch cap: https://salmonstate.org/npfmc

⛔️ The false “emergency” to rush the proposed West Susitna Industrial Access Road for non-Alaskan and foreign-owned gold mining claims is a threat to Alaska's public lands. The comment period for the road is only three weeks, ending Oct. 13.

Read the full statement: https://westsuwild.org/press-releases/the-real-emergency-in-the-west-su-is-the-threat-to-alaskas-public-lands

Add your name NOW: westsuwild.org/take-action

Reposted from Defend the West Su

Between September 12th and September 19th, draggers have bycaught nearly 1,000 Chinook salmon, 8,615 chums, 1,114 individual crabs, over 90,000 pounds of herring and 82,533 pounds of halibut.

Because 119% of the herring bycatch has been taken and is over the limit, the Winter Savings Area is closed starting today through March 1, 2027. Herring continue to be bycaught even after the cap has been met. The North Pacific Fishery Management Council will be considering doubling or even tripling this limit at their February Council meeting.

Ban bottom trawling or kiss your butt goodbye: salmonstate.org/bycatch

There's "no Indigenous knowledge" on the causes of salmon declines. Shockingly, that's what a fisheries scientist recently claimed in an academic article.
Two of the four authors of the academic article this scientist was responding to are Alaska Natives.
It defies belief that after decades of testimony on this topic, multiple times of year, from hundreds of Alaska Native Tribal leaders and citizens, as well as decades of advocacy, someone perceived as knowledgeable about this issue can claim that there is "no Indigenous knowledge" on this topic, or that there is "no Indigenous knowledge" represented in an academic article authored, in part, by Indigenous people. As lead author social scientist Anna Lavoie, Alaska Native leader and lifelong fisherman Brooke Woods, Cup'ig salmon advocate Jackie Arnaciar Boyer, and SalmonState communications director Mary Catharine Martin wrote in a response to his comment:

"Until Indigenous knowledge is treated as equally valid for fisheries management, not as anecdotal supplements to Western data, the salmon crisis will continue, and so will the harm to Alaska Native communities."

Read the response: https://academic.oup.com/fisheries/article/51/8/329/8733375?utm_source=authortollfreelink&utm_campai...
See highlights from the original article authored by Lavoie, Woods, Boyer and Martin: https://www.instagram.com/p/DIM32i_hSpO/?img_index=1

or read the original article: https://academic.oup.com/fisheries/article/50/9/416/8096397