Salmon Troller Advocacy Group to Attend Wild Seafood Connection
ALFA to highlight challenges to the independent commercial fishing fleet
Around the U.S., commercial fishermen of all kinds are being targeted by lawsuits and misinformation campaigns orchestrated by competing special interest groups posing as environmentalists.
Among other sustainably managed commercial fisheries, Southeast Alaska’s salmon troll fisheries have been the target of aggressive lawsuits and misleading rhetoric trying to frame small-boat salmon fishermen as the cause for declining Chinook salmon and Southern Resident Killer Whales in the Pacific Northwest.
In a coordinated effort to correct misinformation, the Alaska Longline Fishermen’s Association (ALFA) has implemented an initiative to educate chefs and seafood buyers with well-documented science to promote salm...