Posted: July 31, 2014 – 7:21pm  |  Updated: August 1, 2014 – 8:46am

…A ballot initiative to ban a gear type has the potential to allow hundreds of thousands of Alaskans from outside the Kenai Peninsula to decide the future of the commercial setnet industry that generates millions in revenue for our local economy.If the initiative is successful, it paves the way for fishing regulations to be decided at the ballot box and bypasses the Board of Fisheries’ process and purpose for existence.It is a dangerous precedent to set and while we believe that evolving fisheries require fishermen who are willing to adapt, the regulation of a multi-billion dollar industry and the state’s No. 1 private sector employer through the ballot box is not the way to ensure that the state’s fisheries are prosecuted safely, fairly and with the upmost regard for the resource…

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