Salmon suit: An egregious hit on Alaskan chinook harvesters

A troller fishes in Sitka Sound, Alaska, in February 2021. A ruling from a U.S. judge in Seattle could effectively shut down commercial king salmon trolling in Southeast Alaska — a valuable industry that supports some 1,500 fishermen — after a conservation group challenged the harvest as a threat to protected fish and the endangered killer whales that eat them.

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