{"id":97512,"date":"2023-03-28T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/opinion-winter-king-salmon-troll-fishery-remains-important\/"},"modified":"2023-03-28T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T06:30:00","slug":"opinion-winter-king-salmon-troll-fishery-remains-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/letters\/opinion-winter-king-salmon-troll-fishery-remains-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Winter king salmon troll fishery remains important"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the Alaska Department of Fish &#038; Game implemented the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adfg.alaska.gov\/index.cfm?adfg=commercialbyareasoutheast.salmon_trollwinter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> winter king salmon troll fishery<\/a> years ago, it was to provide income in Southeast Alaska villages. Winter shore jobs are scarce in our rural communities.<\/p>\n<p>The salmon in the Hoonah area tend to be in the shallow waters of bays, inlets and bights throughout the winter and early spring giving rod and reel hand trollers a chance to apply their skills. They might be lucky enough to slip out for a day or two during lulls in the weather, and if the fish are cooperative a couple of them will get caught. The high demand during these months brings the price of king salmon to over $10 a pound. A 20-pound salmon or two can keep a family supplied with groceries for a few days. Weather permitting, the process is repeated week after week throughout the winter and early spring, or at least until other jobs are available.<\/p>\n<p>Out my window, I watch these hardy friends troll along the shore and wonder what the village would be like if this opportunity was taken away from them? I know it would be a huge disappointment for me even if I&rsquo;m not able to join in the tradition due to my failing health.<\/p>\n<p><em>Floyd Peterson,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Hoonah<\/em><\/p>\n<p><ins><em>Columns, My Turns and Letters to the Editor represent the view of the author, not the view of the Juneau Empire. Have something to say? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/opinion\/have-something-to-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here&rsquo;s how to submit a My Turn or letter.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/ins><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Alaska Department of Fish &#038; Game implemented the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adfg.alaska.gov\/index.cfm?adfg=commercialbyareasoutheast.salmon_trollwinter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> winter king salmon troll fishery<\/a> years ago, it was to provide income in Southeast Alaska villages. Winter shore jobs are scarce in our rural communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":97513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":14,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-97512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97512","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=97512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97512"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=97512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}