“I think the Sitka troll fleet produces more than $25,000 in tax revenue every year to the city,” said Assembly member Chris Ystad, who is a fisherman himself. “It’s an investment for us to make sure that the troll fleet is still able to operate.”
of Alaska’s king salmon harvests on Southern Resident Killer Whales, whose population in the Puget Sound area of Washington has dropped to critically low levels.
“Everything they eat is coming out of waters that are polluted. They’re struggling with habitat issues, they’re struggling with what’s been done in the world around them. They’re in Puget Sound,” Behnken said.
Assembly member Crystal Duncan suggested calling for other Southeast communities to throw in money, noting that like Sitka, communities of Craig and Petersburg had donated to the fund previously.
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