October 2026

Alaska fishers, like these purse seiners on the Alaska Peninsula, aren't to blame for management that leaves ESA-listed Chinook unaccounted for. Fishers follow the rules they're given; this legal action targets the management responsible for those rules. Photo by Conrad Gowell.
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Wild Fish Conservancy Serves Notice of Intent to Sue Over Alaska Fisheries Catching Threatened and Endangered Pacific Northwest Chinook Without Federal Oversight

Today, Wild Fish Conservancy announced that it has notified NOAA Fisheries and Alaska state officials of its intent to sue over commercial and sport salmon fisheries along the Alaska Peninsula, including the marine waters of the Chignik area, and around Kodiak Island that harvest threatened and endangered Chinook salmon from the Puget Sound and Columbia River Basins.

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