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If Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo accepts the recommendation, Gisclair would join the council overseeing Bering Sea fisheries.
Tribal and environmental advocates calling for a crackdown on salmon and halibut bycatch are set to gain a new ally on the federal council that manages Alaska’s lucrative Bering Sea fisheries. Washington Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee last week nominated Becca Robbins Gisclair, an attorney and conservation advocate, to the North Pacific Fishery Management Council. If […] The post Nominee to Bering Sea fisheries council would tip balance toward tribes, away from trawlers appeared first on Alaska Beac
Advocates for rescheduling psychedelics like psilocybin, the hallucinogen found in magic mushrooms, to allow for investments in research of the drug, are finding some powerful allies for the cause.
Advocates say seafood businesses, trade groups and fishermen need to take more action to advocate for lower carbon emissions or risk continued catastrophic declines.
Billions of snow crab disappeared from the Bering Sea in the past few years — a crash that’s devastated Alaska’s crab fishing fleet and a harvest that just two years