Riddled with politics, Alaska’s fisheries management is not the rosy global model that Commissioner Doug Vincent-Lang professes.
Alaska’s fisheries management is not the rosy global model it professes. It is riddled with politics instead of science, ignoring mandatory precautionary management approaches, such as not considering ecosystem food webs, and not managing, as required by law, for the weakest stock in a mixed-stock fishery. Just saying our fish are sustainable does not make it true.
Undetected collectives of smaller wild runs are masked and lost in these large mixed stocks. This has caused many wild salmon populations and subsistence cultures to dwindle. Instead of addressing causes of declines, Fish and Game management often promotes “shifting baselines” by lowering sustainable escapement goals to make populations look healthier than they are. Just changing numbers further exacerbates decline. Instead, we need to investigate problems affecting the runs and track all escapements in relation to history.
Fortunately, retail customers demand and trust MSC certification, urging Fish and Game to comply with MSC’s superior standards. The
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