The group has changed names, expanded its mission and has members associated with another controversial sportfishing association but the Alaska Fisheries Conservation Alliance has not deviated from its original goal ­­— to shut down setnetting in the Cook Inlet.

The group filed a ballot initiative application Wednesday that seeks to ban setnetting in what it defines as “urban” parts of the state including the entire Cook Inlet, Valdez, Fairbanks, Juneau and Ketchikan.

In this 2012 file photo, Parker Peck pulls a skiff out of the water Monday while helping out at the Frostad family setnet sites on Salamatof beach in Kenai. Setnetters in Cook Inlet are central to a recent ballot measure proposition which would ban setnetting in “urban” areas of the state.

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