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Mary Peltola: “Our average run size for kings used to be like 300,000. Now…”

Featuring: Mary Peltola, Democratic | Former U.S. House Representative, Alaska At-Large

Ocean Strategies Interview with Rep. Mary Peltola

Published May 12, 2023 | Video Starts at 28:20

One of those gaps is not having a very accurate forecast for the upcoming run. So on the Cusco, we saw for a run, Our average run size for kings used to be like 300,000. Now it's about 120,000. So that's the average run size. But between 2019 and 2020, we saw plus or -100,000 so in 2019, the projection was it would be a run size of 120,000. (28:20–28:32)

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Asserts that the average run size for king salmon has decreased from 300,000 to 120,000.

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“My goal is to make sure that we can maintain the same kind of abundance that we grew up with [in Alaska fisheries].”
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“In the 117th Congress, Representative Jared Huffman from California had some legislation on reauthorizing Magnuson's Stevens act.”
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“Magnuson Stevens could be more receptive to some of the big paradigm changes that we're seeing now.”
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“On the March 18 of 2022, Congressman Young passed away. And that put a stop on Magnus and Stevens going forward.”
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“There was a republican majority on the Senate side who were not in alignment with that bill 100%.”
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“There's a very slim chance that Magnus and Stevens will be authorized this year, so. Or this. This Congress in 118th.”
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“90% of the work that the House does dies in the Senate.”
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“Since we're not optimistic about Magnuson Stevens reauthorization, can we take another look at these national standards?”
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“There are a number of them that Alaskans find relevant and largely ignored.”
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“National guideline. One is optimum yield. And we really do need to define what optimum yield means.”
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“The Yukon has been closed for three years to salmon fishing.”
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“Subsistence fishermen are getting zero consideration and there is zero thought about the management implications when they are getting 0% of…”
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“For Alaska native communities, wasting is one of the worst things that you can do.”
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“The feds have a seat on the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council for a reason.”
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“They are really there to co-manage, and they have supremacy as the federal agencies.”
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“There has been a void there for a number of decades, and we really need their guidance and their leadership.”
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“The Cuscoquim River Intertribal Fish Commission has a memorandum of understanding with the refuge to co-manage.”
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“Between 2019 and 2020, we saw plus or -100,000 [in king salmon run size].”
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