Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have come up with a new possibility as to why Bering Sea pollock fisheries might be harming Yukon River king salmon.
But it has nothing to do with the salmon bycatch that has had Alaska Rep. Mary Peltola pandering to Western Alaska subsistence fishermen and others who want to believe salmon bycatch in the state’s largest volume fishery is decimating Yukon returns