Shutting down the trawl fishery is entirely within the purview of the U.S. Secretary of the Interior and the Department of Commerce for the United States federal government, but it's also within the purview of the State of Alaska. They can severely limit the number of commercial fishing licences that they have.
Those numbers account for much higher numbers than the subsistence harvest has ever had, and cutting down that commercial fishing harvest and opportunity has had greater effects on the numbers of Yukon River salmon coming back into the river. We saw that in the 1990s when they shut down commercial fishing around area M because Bristol Bay was not getting enough fish back into their rivers and their lakes. We've seen the effects that it's had. It's been fairly effective.
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