Two industry groups are applauding the Alaska Supreme Court opinion blocking a proposed statewide vote on banning commercial setnets in Cook Inlet and elsewhere.
Kenai Peninsula Fishermen's Association press release
Resources for All Alaskans press release
Useless effort in a time that we should all be concerned about supporting the proper science to maintain healthy returns to ensure sustainability. The court ruled to protect the public interests from those who wish to corrupt the system. Clearly KRSA,AFCA and the venerable Robert Penney want to control the management of the fisheries for their own, shallow egos. For one so close to having to be accountable for his past sins, maybe he should be trying to make amends with all that money that he appears to not realize that he can't take it with him. Instead of wanting to hoard the Kenai King so he can fish out of his lodge on the Kenai River for trophy fish, he should be working to create Critical Habitat Zones to assure less disturbance to the spawning channels within the mainstem for those late run fish. That really would be a lasting legacy. Might even have to move that old Penney statue at the Soldotna visitors center to the new in river sanctuary.
ReplyDeleteVery well put, a tremendous waste of energy. Use your money and political power to improve science and protect waters (not this pointless embarassment to the state)
ReplyDeleteVery well put - UCI management will be much better in the hands of Doctor Roland Maw and the UCIDA gang...
ReplyDeleteYes, but UCIDA will have to move their offices from Kenai to the Spring Creek Correctional facility in Seward.
ReplyDelete7:24,10;08 Someone doesn't read very well, the article is about a press release from a setnet fishing group. It is about discrimination not about purported miscreants. Individuals make wrong decisions, just like the gang at KRSA. They just haven't been indicted yet. I guess you might say that individual members of KRSA might be making that same state supplied bus ride to Seward as well. Maybe we can include a few members of the corrupt bastards club, I hear they have formed a new chapter with recent membership?
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