A restriction on chinook/king salmon fishing in the Yukon river drainage is a long way away from a "ban on all forms of salmon fishing in Yukon, Alaska". For o

A restriction on chinook/king salmon fishing in the Yukon river drainage is a long way away from a "ban on all forms of salmon fishing in Yukon, Alaska". For one, commercial, sport and subsistence fishing of kings (which certainly seem to be "forms of salmon fishing" to me) in other areas is still allowed. Most salmon fishing takes place in Bristol Bay and Southeast Alaska and British Columbia, hundreds of miles away from the Yukon. For another, there are six species of Pacific salmon, five of which are found in the PNW and Alaska. By far the largest commercial harvest is of sockeye/red and pink/humpback salmon, which this "ban on all forms" does not affect in the slightest. Chinook/king salmon is, and has pretty much always been, only a very small portion of the commercial harvest (and for that matter, the sport and subsistence harvest). https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/static/fishing/pdfs/commercial/2023_preliminary_salmon_summary_table.pdf https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/static/fishing/pdfs/commercial/2... Note that in 2023, 234,923 chinook/king salmon were caught by commercial fisheries in Alaska. By comparison, 51,817,007 sockeye/reds were caught (220 times as many) and 152,356,420 pink/humpbacks were caught (nearly 650 times as many). This article is basically hot garbage.