Thirty proposals to amend state fishery policy await the Alaska Board of Fisheries, which begins a three-day meeting this morning in Kodiak.
Among them are proposals targeted at rebuilding Kodiak's devastated king salmon runs.
A Kodiak Regional Aquaculture Association proposal would bar commercial seine fishermen from keeping king salmon taken before July 6 in the Kodiak Management Area unless both the Karluk and Ayakulik rivers had met the minimum salmon escapement goals set by state fisheries biologists.
"The Kodiak salmon purse seine fishery catches chinook salmon incidental to the targeted fishery for sockeye and chums during June," reads the proposal. "Given the low returns to the Karluk and Ayakulik rivers and failure to meet minimum escapement goals, the problem at hand is to rebuild these runs."
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