British Columbia conservation group SkeenaWild Conservation Trust has launched a campaign to involve local governments in their bid to protect Skeena salmon from getting scooped by Alaskan seine fisheries.
SkeenaWild Conservation Trust is a charitable organization with an aim to to sustain the long-term health and resilience of the wild salmon ecosystems and local communities along the Skeena River in British Columbia.
Greg Knox, the organization’s executive director says that Alaskan fishers are catching an “unfair number of BC-bound salmon before they reach their home rivers to spawn”. Greg told Smithers council on Tuesday night that “the solution is easy—Alaska needs to move its District 104 interception fisheries off the migration route of BC salmon, to inside waters where Alaskans can still catch their own fish.”
SkeenaWild is imploring local governments to offer a letter of support for their proposed changes to the current (yet outdated) Pacific Salmon Treaty.
