Coastal Alaskans See Commercial Fishing Limits as a ‘crisis.’ Lawmakers Don’t.

Coastal Alaskans see commercial fishing limits as a ‘crisis.’ Lawmakers don’t.

Butch Laiti is president of the Douglas Indian Association, a tribal government in Juneau. The association has purchased a fishing boat and wants to buy a commercial fishing permit for its members to share, but a state law bars it from doing so. (Nathaniel Herz/Northern Journal)This story was produced as part of the Pulitzer Center’s StoryReach U.S. Fellowship and the Public Media Accountability Initiative, which supports investigative reporting…

Kjartan Páll Sveinsson, chairman of the Icelandic Coastal Fishing Association, says it is unacceptable to make drastic changes to coastal fishing in the middle of the season. The Minister of Industry's bill on changes to coastal fishing has been distributed to the Althingi. It states that in order to ensure 48 fishing days, it may be necessary to make changes to how much can be caught per trip. "If they are going to go that route, we anglers wou…

Despite the fact that the season of fishing of prawns in national waters has already been enabled, the fleet of freezer vessels continues to be tied in the main ports of the country so that the business chambers define it as an unprecedented structural crisis. In total, there are 113 ships paralyzed, which affects the entire production chain and directly affects the economy of localities such as Mar del Plata, Puerto Madryn and Puerto Deseado. S…

The campaign of prospecting of prawns in national waters, scheduled to begin on Wednesday, May 28, was officially suspended by the National Institute of Fisheries Research and Development (Inidep) due to the low registration of boats.According to specialized means, only two boats were presented to operate —when a minimum of four are required—, which prevented meeting the technical requirements to evaluate the resource and enable commercial fishi…