Alaska Supreme Court Upholds Tribal Member’s Illegal Fishing Conviction

Mealey's (July 28, 2021, 12:49 PM EDT) -- ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska’s authority to regulate fishing in the state’s waters in the interests of conservation trumps a tribal member’s purported treaty right to subsistence fish, the Alaska Supreme Court held July 23 in affirming the man’s conviction and $20,000 fine for “protest fishing” in regulated waters....