LUTHERAN QUILTERS – Members of the Quilts for Comfort Group stand between pews draped with some of the 205 quilts they made, in the Sitka Lutheran Church Tuesday. The group made the quilts for five local non-profits and one in Anchorage. The remaining quilts are sent to Lutheran World Relief which distributes them to places around the world in need, such as Ukraine, as part of Personal Care Kits. Pictured are, from left, Helen Cunningham, Kathleen Brandt,Vicki Swanson, Paulla Hardy, Kim Hunter, Linda Swanson and Sue Fleming. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)
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Non-Resident Limits on Salmon Retained
By SHANNON HAUGLAND
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The Alaska Board of Fisheries voted Friday against imposing annual limits on sockeye, cohos, chum and pinks for nonresident anglers fishing in saltwater in Southeast Alaska.
Proposal 159 came in from the Southeast Subsistence Regional Advisory Council, and was strongly opposed in public testimony by fishing guides. It proposed no annual limit for residents on salmon – other than king salmon – but set an annual limit for nonresidents at three times their daily bag limit on cohos, sockeye, pinks and chum.
The Department of Fish and Game opposed the measure, in the absence of a conservation need.
The Southeast Subsistence Regional Advisory Council contended that the abuse of the sport fishing bag and possession limit by some nonresidents was contributing to conservation issues on some rivers.
Charter fishing guides told the fisheries board that this measure would affect their business, because the bulk of their customers come for three or four days and would limit out on many salmon species before their trip was over. As proposed, the new regulations would have gone into effect immediately, which means those who booked trips already for the summer would have had different regulations than they expected when they booked their trip, charter businesses said.
Ryan Makinster, executive director of the Southeast Alaska Guides Organization, commented today: “Our biggest issue was without a known conservation issue this proposal may be premature. As the department states in their comments, there is no region-wide conservation issue, and they have the tools to deal with (local) conservation issues as they arrive.”
The board briefly debated a limit on sockeye only, but in the end voted down the entire measure.
Proposal 155, which would have given official recognition to the existing practice of “party fishing” on sport vessels was turned down Friday, on a 2-4 vote by the board.
The proposal, by James Faro, would allow boats with two or more licensed sport fishermen to continue fishing until the combined limits of all persons on board had been caught.
“This proposal would legalize a very common practice,” Faro wrote. “Additionally compliance with the existing bag limit regulation contributes to waste through increased release mortality when ‘excess’ fish of one person’s limit must be discarded. These fish could be retained by transferring possession to another, unlimited angler on board.”
He said both Washington state and California allow boat limits on the ocean. The Sitka Fish and Game Advisory Committee opposed the proposal on a 2-11 vote, with one abstention, but one member of the fisheries board said advisory committees in Wrangell and Petersburg supported the idea.
The measure failed on a 2-4 vote, with Reed Morisky and Fritz Johnson voting in favor, and Sue Jeffrey, Orville Huntington, John Jensen and Chairman Tom Kluberton opposed.
The fisheries board’s meeting, being held at Centennial Hall, began Monday and ends Tuesday.
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Photo caption: National Republican Chairman George Bush takes a drink of water offered by Jan Craddick, Sitka delegate, during the Republican convention held here. Mrs. Craddick explained to Bush that the water was from Indian River, which means, according to local legend, that he will return.