{"id":100355,"date":"2023-06-18T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/opinion\/letter-hoping-for-a-favorable-ruling-as-king-salmon-troller-season-nears\/"},"modified":"2023-06-18T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T05:30:00","slug":"letter-hoping-for-a-favorable-ruling-as-king-salmon-troller-season-nears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/letter-hoping-for-a-favorable-ruling-as-king-salmon-troller-season-nears\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Hoping for a favorable ruling as king salmon troller season nears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Folks following the Wild Fish Conservancy lawsuit that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/southeast-trollers-remain-hooked-in-web-of-washington-lawsuit-that-could-halt-summer-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seeks to shut down commercial king salmon fishing<\/a> in Southeast Alaska may not be aware of the defendants (NOAA, State of Alaska, Alaska Trollers Association) motion for a stay of the district court order pending appeal.<\/p>\n<p>The notion asks the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to stay the lower court&rsquo;s May order which shut down the commercial Southeast Alaska king salmon fishery. A stay would allow trollers to fish kings this year.<\/p>\n<p>The defendants have asked the court for a decision on the motion by June 23, which is this Friday. I can&rsquo;t predict what the court will do, but I certainly hope the stay is granted. Can&rsquo;t give odds. We should have an answer by closing time Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Donohoe<\/p>\n<p>President, Alaska Trollers Association<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Folks following the Wild Fish Conservancy lawsuit that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/southeast-trollers-remain-hooked-in-web-of-washington-lawsuit-that-could-halt-summer-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">seeks to shut down commercial king salmon fishing<\/a> in Southeast Alaska may not be aware of the defendants (NOAA, State of Alaska, Alaska Trollers Association) motion for a stay of the district court order pending appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":14,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[97],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-100355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters","category-opinion","tag-letters-to-the-editor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100355"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=100355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}