The Alaska Board of Fisheries will hold an emergency teleconference at 8:30 a.m. tomorrow to consider a petition regarding Upper Cook Inlet salmon setnetters.
State fishery managers have shut down eastside setnetters because of poor Chinook salmon runs into the Kenai River.
That's costing the setnetters big time, as their target sockeye crop is swimming by unharvested.
Here's the public notice of tomorrow's board teleconference.
"The petition requests that setnet fishing in the East Forelands statistical area of Cook Inlet be opened to help keep the Kenai River late-run sockeye salmon escapement within the range set by regulation," the notice says.
Here are comments on the petition from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.