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Do fishers have to lose to protect salmon?

Do fishers have to lose to protect salmon?

Update: 2023-05-08
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Last week, the Wild Fish Conservancy won a lawsuit against the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that will soon halt salmon fishing in Southeast Alaska.

Like with any issue, when there is a winner there are also losers and plenty of complications. We’ll get into it with the litigant, an Alaskan fisher, and a historian.

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Do fishers have to lose to protect salmon?

Do fishers have to lose to protect salmon?

Caroline Chamberlain Gomez