Orca Conservancy and Wild Orca file Amicus Brief in support of Wild Fish Conservancy’s Southeast Alaska harvest lawsuit

Chinook salmon harvested in the Southeast Alaska troll fishery actually originate from rivers throughout Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. Troll fisheries are currently Roughly half of these fish would migrate back to the Columbia River basin. These fish are being intercepted during their historical migration, preventing them from reaching their home spawning grounds or migrating back down into southern waters where the Southern Resident killer whales encounter them. The vast majority of these Chinook are from priority stocks for the orca population.