Fisheries Board to Hear Chitina Dip-Netting Issue in March Meeting
By
Tim Mowry
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
February 11, 2010
The classification of Chitina dip-netters will be taken up at a meeting this March.
FAIRBANKS — The issue of whether Chitina dip-netters should be
classified as personal-use or subsistence fishermen is still flopping
around like a Copper River red salmon that’s been scooped out of the
river and is waiting to be clubbed in the head.
The Alaska Board of Fisheries will take another whack at it in March.
The
board drafted two proposals related to the Chitina personal-use fishery
at its meeting in Fairbanks last month. The proposals address a
December court ruling that said the board erred in rejecting a 2003
proposal to classify the Chitina dip net fishery as subsistence instead
of personal use.
