As herring decline, tribes challenge Alaska’s respected fisheries program

Each spring, in Alaska’s Sitka Sound, herring return to spawn, touching off a long-running clash between commercial fishers and the Tlingit tribe, whose subsistence harvest of herring roe has been going on for millennia, as Brett Simpson explains in FERN’s latest story, published with The Nation. “Today, their subsistence harvest accounts for less than 1… » Read More