Joe Macinko

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Joe Macinko has fished commercially since 1980 out of Kenai, Kodiak, Sand Point and Dutch Harbor. He lives in Kodiak now.

Fishery council chair's response to bycatch criticism snagged bottom

OPINION: When it comes to reducing trawler bycatch, there's apparently good money to be made in prolonging the problem.

By Joe Macinko●

August 22, 2014 at 7:05 pm

Canada's trawlers drastically cut bycatch, why can't Alaska's?

OPINION: The massive trawl by-catch of species on which so many Alaskans depend is not an unavoidable consequence of trawling. It's bad management by design. It's time for Alaskans to put and end to it.

By Joe Macinko●

July 29, 2014 at 6:56 am