Print article The Dunleavy administration has declared war on commercial fishermen with the recent decision to add an alternative to the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council to eliminate commercial salmon fishing in the economic exclusion zone in Cook Inlet. This will devastate the drift gillnet fleet which was already struggling because of poor management decisions made by the Alaska Board of Fisheries, which is stacked with Duleavy appointments and has only one member from a coastal community and has reallocated the salmon resource in Cook Inlet to sport and personal use fishermen. The Dunleavy alternative in the Council process was added at the last minute, after the Council and a task force with user group members spent years working out a plan that would add federal oversight to the fishery in federal waters to attempt to correct the Board of Fish and Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game mismanagement of the resource.The decision to shut down the Cook Inlet salmon fishery i
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Those fishermen and representatives from the Kenai Peninsula turned out in droves to the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council meeting to oppose the closure and advocate for lighter conservation measures.
But when representatives from Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration said the state was unwilling to manage the area alongside the federal government, the council voted unanimously for the closure.
The 10-0 vote shuts down drift gillnet fishing in waters farther than three miles offshore, from the southern tip of Kalgin Island to Anchor Point. Fishermen like Georgie Heaverly, of Anchorage, said the area is a crucial fishing ground and that the closure will reverberate across industries.
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