Anchorage Daily News
By Sean Maguire, Michelle Theriault Boots
June 8, 2023
State officials are scrambling to open the fishery after it was effectively closed by a federal judge — but damage has already been done.
More than 100 salmon trollers packed a Sitka meeting Wednesday night with sharp questions about the future of an iconic Southeast Alaska fishery, facing what could be an unprecedented full shutdown of this year’s chinook trolling season.