State gives trollers 10 days to go after kings, with 12-fish limit

Trollers shoved off from docks across Southeast Alaska over the weekend, following an announcement from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game of a very limited 10-day commercial opening for kings.

The brief window opened Sept. 1 and was scheduled to close Sept. 10, with a limit of 12 kings per troller.

The department said it expects trollers will harvest the remaining Southeast allocation of about 4,000 fish. That’s what remains of the commercial net fisheries share of Southeast kings, as seine fisheries have wrapped up and gillnet fisheries are winding down across the region.

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