Ban factory trawling and keep mid-water (pelagic) trawlers off the ocean bottom to reduce bycatch and protect Alaska salmon stocks.
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Derived from a tracked promise: “Ban factory trawling and keep mid-water (pelagic) trawlers off the ocean bottom to reduce bycatch and protect Alaska salmon stocks.”
Sources
- Mary Peltola for Alaska (campaign website)· archivedhttps://marypeltola.com/fish/ ↗
“Mary will fight to ban factory trawling”
“introduced the Bottom Trawl Clarity Act and Bycatch Reduction and Mitigation Act”
- Mary Peltola for Alaska (campaign)· archivedhttps://marypeltola.com/mary-peltola-announces-plan-to-fight-for-alaska-fisheries/ ↗
“Ban factory trawling and keep mid-water trawlers off bottom to reduce bycatch”