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Peltola sponsors a bill to limit salmon bycatch. The pollock industry calls it 'unworkable.'

Alaska Congresswoman Mary Peltola introduced two bills Wednesday that aim to deliver on one of her campaign themes: Reducing the number of salmon that the Bering Sea fishing fleet catches by accident. One of the bills would curtail the use of fishing nets that scrape sensitive parts of the sea floor. It would require regional fisheries management councils to designate bottom trawl zones and limit that kind of fishing to those areas.

Peltola sponsors a bill to limit salmon bycatch. The pollock industry calls it 'unworkable'

The bill would restrict bottom trawling. Another would boost grants for research. But Peltola acknowledges Congress is unlikely to pass them.

Alaska pollock sector says proposed legislation aimed at trawlers is 'unworkable'

Peltola sponsors a bill to limit salmon bycatch. The pollock industry calls it 'unworkable.'

The bill would restrict bottom trawling. Another would boost grants for research. But Peltola acknowledges Congress is unlikely to pass them.

Alaska Pollock Fishery Alliance formed to create "more balanced conversation" around Alaska's pollock trawl fishery

Alaska Pollock Fishery Alliance was created on 7 March to provide unified industry representation of Alaska s pollock trawl fishery in public forums.