Crabbers are pressing for the council to make an additional expansion to the north to an area that may now be used by more king crab. That move is opposed by Chris Woodley, executive director of the Groundfish Forum, a Seattle organization that represents most of the largely Washington-based bottom-trawl fleet. The North Pacific council also is being asked to do more to protect the accidental harvest of salmon by Bering Sea trawlers. This plea comes in the aftermath of disastrous returns of Chinook and chum to the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers that severely impacted Alaska Natives in the region who depend on these fish for subsistence.
The cause for the decline in these salmon runs is not well understood. Warming trends in the Bering Sea and freshwater are one factor researchers are exploring.
Is this the beginning of the end to the Yukon River salmon … We are in crisis. Correction: The Bering Sea bairdi crab harvest will be 1. An earlier version of this story gave an incorrect figure. The opinions expressed in reader comments are those of the author only and do not reflect the opinions of The Seattle Times.
By Hal Bernton. Show caption. Hal Bernton: or hbernton seattletimes. Biologists will be working with less data this year, as repercussions of the covid pandemic thwarted trawl surveys that are usually conducted each summer. September 8, King crab: Uncertainty as coming season hinges on biomass calculations. Charlie Ess. News Current Issue » October Alaska.
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