The Biden administration is suing the state of Alaska over fishing management authority on the Kuskokwim River, which is critical for subsistence fishing.
Ida Alexie cuts salmon strips as her daughter Sunny Alexie cuts salmon in the background at the fish camp along Kuskokuak Slough on the Kuskokwim River near Bethel on June 28, 2014.
The 25-page complaint was filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Anchorage. It names the state of Alaska, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, and Fish and Game Commissioner Doug Vincent-Lang as defendants. Melissa Schwartz, a spokeswoman with the Interior Department, said in an email Tuesday that predictions for returning king and chum salmon this summer are so low that the federal government must limit fishing again to rural subsistence users only for the 180-mile stretch of river in the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge.
The Biden administration’s complaint says federal officials have tried to collaborate with the state to coordinate management of the Kuskokwim in the refuge, but those efforts have failed. The dispute between the state and federal managers was highlighted on June 28, when the state held an opener for all Alaskans on a day when the federal government had authorized no opener for anyone, the complaint says.
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