Description: Sport Halibut Fishing Blog from John Beath, YouTube.com/jbeath Halibut.net & SquidPro Tackle
Alaska Native, Mary Sattler Peltola campaigned largely on fixing Alaska’s broken and depleted fisheries. As a new U.S. House of Representatives & member of the U.S. House Natural Resources Committe, Peltola is now in a position to fix a largely outdated Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. The legislation was greatly needed to help keep foreign fleets off our fishing grounds and when passed in 1976 did that and more to bring control to our fisheries. But now, according to Peltola’s camp
How this will help Sports Anglers
Peltola supports further reductions in bycatch quotas and supports fisheries conservation to ensure Alaska Native Villages have sustainable amounts of halibut for subsistence fishing which is vital to these remote locales that rely on subsistence to survive. Conservation and reduced trawling will have an effect that goes farther than just Alaska. Alaska supports the vast majority of halibut numbers and is the main area for juvenile halibut.