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“Don’t poo in the blue!”
Tuesday PM (SitNews) Anchorage, Alaska - With the summer boating season underway, Alaska Department of Environmental Commissioner Jason Brune reminds recreational and commercial boaters that it is illegal to discharge untreated sewage anywhere in the State’s freshwaters or the marine waters within three miles of Alaska’s shores. This includes dumping buckets, leaning over the rail, as well as bypassing the holding tanks of an on-board toilet whether in a harbor, at anchor, on the fishing grounds, or while underway. Reminder letters were sent to all Alaska Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission permit holders reminding them of their responsibility to protect Alaska’s pristine waters.
Proposal for state buyback of Cook Inlet setnet permits advances in Legislature
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Print article Legislation aimed at easing tensions and fishing pressure in one of the state’s most popular fisheries is already on the move this session after dying in the COVID-shortened session last year. Without objection, the Senate Resources Committee advanced Sen. Peter Micciche’s Senate Bill 29 to the Finance Committee March 8; the bill authorizes the state to buy back nearly half of the upper Cook Inlet setnet permits on the Kenai Peninsula from any members. Micciche, a Soldotna Republican who was also selected Senate President earlier this year, said during a March 3 Resources hearing that the plan for the state to voluntarily repurchase permits from East Side Cook Inlet setnetters was initially drafted by a group of sport anglers and commercial harvesters “who have struggled to work together for many years and now feel like they have a solution moving forward.�
Alaska Journal | Setnet permit buyback bill moves from Senate committee alaskajournal.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from alaskajournal.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.