The North Pacific Fishery Management Council meets Wednesday in Anchorage. Groundfish quotas will be set before the panel adjourns next week.
Tuesday, the Council’s Advisory Panel wasn’t giving much support to Cook Inlet commercial fishermen who oppose a state push to get the feds out of salmon management.
The advisory panel on the other hand is recommending removing some sports and setnet salmon fisheries from the federal Fishery Management Plan for salmon. Roland Maw, executive director of United Cook Inlet Drift Association, says he’s disappointed, but UCIDA will keep trying.
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APTI Reporter-Producer Ellen Lockyer started her radio career in the late 1980s, after a stint at bush Alaska weekly newspapers, the Copper Valley Views and the Cordova Times. When the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound, Valdez Public Radio station KCHU needed a reporter, and Ellen picked up the microphone.
Since then, she has literally traveled the length of the state, from Attu to Eagle and from Barrow to Juneau, covering Alaska stories on the ground for the AK show, Alaska News Nightly, the Alaska Morning News and for Anchorage public radio station, KSKA
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