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📰 New opinion piece out from Alaska sport fishermen in the Anchorage Daily News: Level the playing field by making pelagic trawlers follow the law: buff.ly/wZ4vMIN
Support the proposals: buff.ly/udMNGMk
If your name was missing, add it here: buff.ly/MZedZP5
Read the full press release: buff.ly/EgEi91v
More than FIVE THOUSAND Alaskans signed the letter delivered in person this week to Rep. Nick Begich urging him to ban bottom trawling in federal waters.
If you were one of them, thank you! Please share and comment on this post. Let's make sure he knows Alaskans are paying attention.
Monday March 16th at 5:30 pm at 49th State Brewing in downtown Anchorage. There will be drink tickets and appetizers available.
RSVP: buff.ly/U1vFCJx
Join the Alaska Healthy Habitat Alliance to learn more about the three trawl accountability proposals, 163-165, in front of the Alaska Board of Fisheries at next week's 'Statewide Finfish and Supplemental Issues' meeting. You'll also learn how to testify in support of them.
We will be at the Great Alaska Sportsman Show at the Sullivan Arena this weekend, March 6-8 — and we'll be presenting on Sunday at 11 a.m.! Stop by to say hi, grab some stickers and take action.
More info: buff.ly/GizKHCy
"But can you really ban bottom trawling?" It's been done around the globe — in Alaska, too. Add your name today: buff.ly/2i9DOiB
Grab a sticker and sign a petition to stop wasteful trawl bycatch this weekend at the Anchorage Boat Show, February 20th - 22nd, 10am- 7 pm at the Dena'ina Center.
More info: buff.ly/ooaIKEG
Read SalmonState's full press release here: buff.ly/LIgBgmz
Ban bottom trawling: buff.ly/HT8fsgY
From 2011 to 2023, there were only three years in which trawlers were above the Western Alaska chum salmon cap the North Pacific Fishery Management Council put into place last week. Average trawl bycatch of Western Alaska chum salmon during those years was 46,995.
The trawl industry is patting itself on the back for accepting a bycatch "cap" of 45,000 Western Alaska chum salmon — but that's barely below what they've been catching, on average, in recent years.
There will be a short program, followed by a film screening, a Q&A session, and door prizes will be given away.
RSVP: buff.ly/UxukB6y
🎬 You’re invited! Join SalmonState at the Nome Community Center on Wednesday, February 18th at 6:30 pm.
Join us for ‘Ocean with David Attenborough’, which dives into the undiscovered parts of Earth’s oceans while also addressing bottom trawling as one of its largest threats.
Ban bottom trawling: buff.ly/HT8fsgY
Read the whole opinion piece: buff.ly/AuHM8wL
Ban bottom trawling: buff.ly/HT8fsgY
Read the whole opinion piece, "Our salmon are vanishing — and the State of Alaska is letting it happen" at buff.ly/WJYRlRX
Read the full piece, "Alaska chum salmon need a low bycatch cap and a safe passageway – and they need it now" at buff.ly/4MgXWmC
Sign up to testify to the North Pacific Fishery Management Council under agenda C2- chum salmon bycatch final action: buff.ly/o862lGa
Join us at The Cordova Center on Saturday, 2/7 at 3:00 pm
RSVP: buff.ly/NmLW3xj
🎬 SalmonState invites you to a special FREE screening of 'Ocean with David Attenborough' that dives into the beauty of our ocean ecosystems and the dangers of bottom trawling. There will be a short program, followed by a film screening, a Q&A session, and door prizes will be given away.
but with your help, we made clear to the Council, and the media, what the best available options are. THANK YOU if you are one of the 899 who signed on.
Stay tuned for more.
TODAY is the start of a 10-day North Pacific Fishery Management Council Meeting that will see the consideration of a long-awaited cap on trawler bycatch of chum salmon. The options the Council is considering are insufficient
Read the study: buff.ly/IZtVFcl
Ocean Conservancy and the Alaska Marine Community Coalition just released a report analyzing the trawl fleet's much-hyped studies of their "economic benefits."
Their findings? Most benefits of the billion dollar industry leave Alaska.
Limit chum bycatch: buff.ly/2EUoFjO
We need meaningful action and reduction of bycatch, not more studies.
Take action on chum bycatch: buff.ly/lHVnRUO
Alaska's fisheries and coastal communities are already feeling the consequences of unacceptable levels of wasteful bycatch and seafloor habitat destruction. More research will not stop the loss of salmon, halibut, and other vital species or prevent further degradation of critical ecosystems.
Alaska’s Congressional delegation has introduced the Bycatch Reduction and Research Act — a bill that will fund more studies, give trawlers money for technology that reduces bycatch and bottom contact, and prioritize technology used for monitoring and reporting.
"Being connected to the environment keeps our roots planted in tradition and instinct. In the modern world, this is the most I can offer myself and our family."
-Adam (FV Myriad & FV Kariel)
Fish & Family Seafoods
SalmonState's Marketplace partners commit to sustainable fishing practices and are also just great people 🐟
Learn more about Fish & Family Seafoods, out of Sitka, at buff.ly/T7yHR2Q