Five options on the table to curb chum salmon bycatch - KNOM Radio Mission

Five options on the table to curb chum salmon bycatch - KNOM Radio Mission

At Tuesday’s Seward Peninsula Subsistence Regional Advisory Council meeting, Chair Louis Green Jr. brought up one issue long on his mind: chum salmon bycatch, or salmon inadvertently caught while fishing for other seafoods like halibut or crab.  “I started dealing with this stuff at the Board of Fish in 1993,” Green said, referring to what he described as the first in a series of red flags of collapsing fish runs.  “We said that ‘if you don’t st…