Lawsuit Over SE AK Salmon Fisheries Also Targets Orca Prey Increase Program In Puget Sound, Elsewhere
The lawsuit targeting authorization of Southeast Alaska salmon fisheries in federal waters has been well covered. Not so well known is that it also asks a US District Court judge to stop a $5.6-plus-million annual program that’s been launched to increase hatchery Chinook production in Puget Sound and elsewhere in the Northwest and is meant to benefit starving southern resident killer whales.