“I don't want to get any more texts and emails from friends in rural Alaska to say, 'I only have two salmon to feed my family this year,'” GOP U.S. Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka said during a discussion of fisheries issues in Bethel.
Tshibaka said that the jurisdiction of the North Pacific Fishery Management Council is too broad. That federal council currently manages waters off Alaska, Washington, and Oregon. She said that Alaska deserves its own separate council. Tshibaka noted that three separate councils manage fishing in the Atlantic.
She said that an additional council would be an opportunity to include more Alaska Native seats. If elected to the U.S. Senate, Tshibaka said that she’d advocate forwhich is the main federal legislation that governs fisheries. A reauthorization bill recently passed the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee.
Tshibaka said that she would support a provision in the current reauthorization bill that would add two Alaska Native seats to the North Pacific council. She also supports a revision in the bill that would strike out the words “to the extent practicable” from rules limiting bycatch. That move aims to reduce the incidence of commercial fishing vessels catching species other than the one they intended.
“We know that subsistence is a priority for the state, and yet we’re not prioritizing it. And I would really like to see us move past the place where we’re just doing research and we move into resolution and action,” Tshibaka said.on fishery issues on Oct. 4. She said that she was notified of the date “maybe 10 days or two weeks before” and wasn’t able to change her travel plans.
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