Many Alaska king salmon stocks up for Endangered Species Act review after group’s petition

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A scientific review likely will take at least a year.

, it’s mainly a bureaucratic step for the petition, from the Washington-based Wild Fish Conservancy, and kicks off a scientific review likely to take at least a year.

Northern Journal reporter Nat Herz spoke with Alaska Public Media’s Casey Grove about the petition, the Fisheries Service announcement and the implications.: This is the, one and the same, conservation group. The litigation that they filed a few years ago to try to protect Washington State resident orca whales almost led to the closure of this really economically important king salmon fishery across Southeast Alaska.

The flip side of that is for king salmon. They’re seeing these declines kind of across the board, and you talk to even people who typically, like, hate the Endangered Species Act, they’re not denying that something needs to be done here. And they’re not necessarily disputing the the scientific conclusions, the data. One of the challenges is there isn’t one specific thing, and particularly not one specific thing that’s easily fixable, that seems like it’s causing this.

 

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