November 13, 2018 — Stakeholders in Alaska’s Copper River salmon fishery recently met to discuss forming a formal partnership to help ensure the future of the resource for their grandchildren, the Cordova Times reported.
At a three-day “search” conference held in Cordova, Alaska, beginning on Nov. 1, stakeholder groups including fisheries managers, and tribal and non-tribal harvesters from several gear types engaged in a number of “collective exercises to identify a shared vision and plan”, the newspaper reported.