To comply with court rulings, the federal fisheries service is now in charge of salmon harvests in federal waters of the Inlet, replacing decades-long state management
By Yereth Rosen, Alaska BeaconThree male pink salmon pursue a female up Ship Creek in Anchorage on Aug. 9, 2013. Salmon that spawn in Ship Creek are among the many stocks that swim in Cook Inlet. Starting this year, the federal government will be managing salmon fishing in the inlet's federal waters, a break from the decades-long Alaska Department of Fish and Game management of salmon throughout the inlet.
The UCIDA lawsuit took issue with state management decisions and argued that NMFS was failing in its duties. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in 2016 in UCIDA’s favor. A map shows the federally controlled exclusive economic zone in Cook Inlet, the area of the inlet where the federal government is now managing salmon fishing after decades of state management across all of Cook Inlet.
The North Pacific Fishery Management Council, when faced at its April meeting with a choice between possible management alternatives for salmon in Cook Inlet’s federal waters,.
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