In the hunt for herring eggs, Sitka Tribe calls for a smaller fishery
Cut open any fish from Southeast Alaska and you’re likely to find herring in its belly. Herring are a forage fish: silver, fatty and loaded with roe. But as the Board of Fish prepares to discuss finish proposals in January 2018, a decades old debate is gaining traction over the stability of Sitka’s herring population.
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