Bills Now on Senate Floor Include Millions for Alaska Fisheries
Bills now up for consideration in the U.S. Senate include several that would allocate millions of dollars for research benefitting commercial fisheries in Alaska.
The list of fisheries legislation sponsored by Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, includes $3.5 million for in-season genetic analysis of chum salmon bycatch in the Bering Sea pollock fishery, to enhance understanding and efforts to reduce chum salmon bycatch and support Western Alaska fisheries and $3 million for the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute to promote U.S. wild-caught Alaska seafood to retain and expand market share among domestic consumers.
An allocation of $2.5 million is proposed for the North Pacific Research Board to study how environmental conditions influence special of commercial and ecological importanc...