Tag Archives: Unalaska Native Fisherman’s Association
Native Fishermen’s Group Seeks To Close Unalaska Bay To Commercial Trawl Fishing
A proposal to permanently close Unalaska Bay to commercial trawl fishing is up for discussion at an upcoming Alaska Board of Fisheries meeting. The statewide meeting takes place the second week of March in Anchorage, and Qawalangin tribal president Tom Robinson will be there to testify. He will be speaking on behalf of the (UNFA). Robinson says this is UNFA’s third attempt since 2008 to get the proposal – numbered 194 – passed by the Board. In 2013, the Unalaska City Council passed a resolution supporting the plan to close Unalaska Bay to groundfish fishing with trawl gear year-round. Read the rest here 08:29
Trawlers 86’d from Unalaska Bay?
While a trawler lobbyist doubts his boats would risk tearing up a $100,000 net on a crab pot in Unalaska Bay, local small boat fishermen have a simple solution. In their view, the pollock boats should drag their nets someplace else, outside the bay in the wide open Bering Sea…”Trawlers have the whole Bering Sea to fish in. They should not be fishing off our beaches in our community,” said Vincent Tutiakoff, representing both the Unalaska Native Fisherman’s Association and the Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska. Read more
