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Alaska's salmon collapse and the trawler fight

The science points at the ocean. The politics point at the fleet.

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Claims from: Alaska and Canada ban chinook fishing on the Yukon for seven years · Show all story claims

In February 2026 the North Pacific council voted to cap the chum salmon that Bering Sea pollock trawlers catch by accident. Before that vote, what did federal rules already do about salmon in the pollock nets?

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