Proposed bill would allow shellfish populations to be enhanced with hatchery stock
4:59 But some scientists say they’re worried about what hatchery crab and other species could do to natural populations. Throughout Alaska’s waters, shellfish populations have been in decline for decades — decimated by overfishing in the 1980s and by changing ocean environments in the years since. Bristol Bay’s world-renown sockeye salmon fishery was a bright spot in a dismal statewide salmon harvest last year. But its red king crab fishery is in steep decline. “There’s quite a lot of concern that this [Bristol Bay red king crab] fishery could close as early as this year,” sa...
Source: knba.org