Aquaculture

Climate change, dire state of Alaska salmon fuel NOAA's attempt to create a new national seafood strategy

Warming waters are particularly impacting Alaska's salmon fisheries, an issue the seafood strategy could address as it aims to make the US seafood industry more climate resilient.

A Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission sonar test fishing crew counts the haul from their afternoon drifts. The tribal commission is asking the US pollock industry to impose a chum salmon bycatch cap.
A Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission sonar test fishing crew counts the haul from their afternoon drifts. The tribal commission is asking the US pollock industry to impose a chum salmon bycatch cap.Photo: Kuskokwim River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission
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Published 9 March 2023, 16:08Updated 9 March 2023, 16:39