Bycatch

A recent report from the Government Accountability Office calls on federal managers to increase the number of observers on fishing vessels and develop better ways to track and monitor bycatch.

Social media posts featured marine traffic maps showing the location of the trawlers, with one post reading “six trawlers right outside the mouth of Kuskokwim.”

U.S. House Rep. Mary Peltola spoke with KYUK about two bills she recently proposed meant to regulate the trawl industry and reduce bycatch, as well as what she’s hearing about fisheries on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta and her recent amicus brief in support of the Donlin mine development.

The recently signed seven-year agreement to close chinook fishing was “the bold step that needed to be taken,” a federal manager says.