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logo 11/27/2024 1:28:01 PM     
Alaska pollock trawlers are feeling pressure over salmon bycatch 
By Casey Grove US Source: alaskapublic 10/19/2023
Casey Grove
Credit: Loren Holmes / ADN
Bering Sea factory trawlers scoop up tens of thousands of pollock at a time, and pressure is intensifying to avoid catching salmon as populations of chum and chinook have plummeted in recent years, causing closures for subsistence harvesting.
 

The trawlers are not entirely to blame — warming oceans due to human-caused climate change are almost certainly a factor — but they have drawn the ire of salmon advocates from Western Alaska to Washington D.C.

 
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