Name: Nicole Kimball: we have hard caps in this fishery. There's a hard cap that's annual. There's also a lower cap that the fisheries manage to, so it's a double cap system.
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Description: we have hard caps in this fishery. There's a hard cap that's annual. There's also a lower cap that the fisheries manage to, so it's a double cap system.

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Nicole Kimball

15:35 - 15:54

"we have hard caps in this fishery. There's a hard cap that's annual. There's also a lower cap that the fisheries manage to, so it's a double cap system."

“we have hard caps in this fishery. There's a hard cap that's annual. There's also a lower cap that the fisheries manage to, so it's a double cap system.”

Speaker: Nicole Kimball
Timestamp: 15:35 – 15:54
Source: 09-03-2026 RDC Breakfast Forum: Alaska Seafood:
Community: Alaska News
Location: Alaska
Captured at: September 8, 2026

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And because I was asked to talk about the management, it's not just here's the data and what can we do with it, but But we have hard caps in this fishery. There's a hard cap that's annual. There's also a lower cap that the fisheries manage to, so it's a double cap system. I did put in here the total Chinook. I should have put a longer time series.

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