During his 20 years as a member of the Alaska Board of Fisheries, Petersburg commercial fisherman John Jensen relied on a lifetime of experience harvesting salmon, crab and other shellfish as he voted on statewide fishery regulations.
But he couldn’t always weigh in with his wisdom, and a Kodiak legislator is looking to change that this year.
When the Board of Fisheries held its 2018 Southeast regulatory meeting in Sitka, Jensen had to sit on the sidelines for about a third of the meeting. He couldn’t participate in the board's deliberations on state management of fisheries in which he’d decla...
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