U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, has introduced an updated version of bycatch legislation he offered last year.
"I've heard from countless Alaskans ... who are rightfully demanding direct action to reduce bycatch and gear contact with the seafloor," Sullivan says in a press release.
"Countless Alaskans". Wonder if he's talking about that a loud mouth charter goon out of Seward that is his largest fundraiser or KRSA's sandwiched-themed lobbyist or the angry bangs lady from Connecticut ... er I mean Sitka?
Dragging/trawling is big business. The only way to reduce bycatch is to hit em in the pocketbook. Make their industry pay market price for every pound of nontargeted fish they kill and throw overboard. Reimburse the halibut longliners for halibut draggers arbitrarily kill and are no longer available to harvest. Pay Alaskan subsistence users for the food they now have to buy to replace king salmon they have relied upon for thousands of years. Make them pay for their dirty fisheries and you’ll see change.
Shouldn't we do the same for all fisheries then? We should charge the long liners for the 12 million pounds of juvenile discarded and the troll fleet for the 40k dead undersized kings they toss every year.
"Countless Alaskans". Wonder if he's talking about that a loud mouth charter goon out of Seward that is his largest fundraiser or KRSA's sandwiched-themed lobbyist or the angry bangs lady from Connecticut ... er I mean Sitka?
ReplyDeleteDan has become a KRSA errand boy.
ReplyDeleteDragging/trawling is big business. The only way to reduce bycatch is to hit em in the pocketbook. Make their industry pay market price for every pound of nontargeted fish they kill and throw overboard. Reimburse the halibut longliners for halibut draggers arbitrarily kill and are no longer available to harvest. Pay Alaskan subsistence users for the food they now have to buy to replace king salmon they have relied upon for thousands of years.
ReplyDeleteMake them pay for their dirty fisheries and you’ll see change.
Shouldn't we do the same for all fisheries then? We should charge the long liners for the 12 million pounds of juvenile discarded and the troll fleet for the 40k dead undersized kings they toss every year.
DeleteDon't forget the thousands of red king crab tossed back dead by the (ahem)....red king crab fleet.
DeleteTrawl groups have concerns with Sullivan's legislation:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.ucba.org/uploads/5/4/3/8/5438141/bycatchreductionact_joint_apa_mtc_ucb.pdf
Crazy how trawling is going to be taken down by a facebook page
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