Fisheries managers start process to tighter salmon bycatch rules

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Fisheries managers start process to tighter salmon bycatch rules

Federal fishery managers took steps on Feb. 11 to impose new rules to prevent Alaska chum salmon from being scooped into nets that go after Bering Sea pollock, an industrial-scale fishery that produces the nation’s largest single-species commercial seafood harvest. The North Pacific Fishery Management Council advanced a suite of new protections intended to combat the pollock trawlers’ salmon bycat...