The Wild Fish Conservancy filed its suit against the National Marine Fisheries Service in 2020, arguing that the government failed to adequately address the impact of Alaskan king salmon harvests on critically endangered southern resident killer whales.
Donohoe says the Wild Fish Conservancy lawsuit unjustly characterizes Southeast trollers as intercepting fish they’re not entitled to.
Kurt Beardslee, with the Wild Fish Conservancy, agrees that threats to killer whales can’t be reduced to just problem. But he doesn’t want to let trollers off the hook just because the other problems aren’t as well understood. This is where the lawsuit will likely lead — not to a shutdown of trolling in Alaska, but to a better understanding of what’s brought the population of southern resident killer whales to near-extinction.
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