Anna MacArthur
11:32 - 12:25
“the federal area overlays the Norton Sound red king crab nursery, where, um, is where we get our wonderful red king crab from here in Norton Sound. And it's also the federal waters of Norton Sound is designated as a central fish habitat by the National Marine Fishery Service for all 5 species of Pacific salmon”
- Speaker
- Anna MacArthur
- Timestamp
- 11:32 – 12:25
- Community
- Alaska News
- Captured at
- October 26, 2026
From the transcript
Subsistence and commercially. And in particular, the federal area overlays the Norton Sound red king crab nursery, where, um, is where we get our wonderful red king crab from here in Norton Sound. And it's also the federal waters of Norton Sound is designated as a central fish habitat by the National Marine Fishery Service for all 5 species of Pacific salmon, as well as red and blue king crab of Norton Sound, and multiple groundfish species. Bottom trawling is completely banned in U.S. federal waters of the entire northern Bering Sea and Norton Sound. And it— the bottom trawling is banned to allow research to first determine what the effects of bottom trawling would be before it could occur because it's such critical habitat.
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