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         The catching of Yukon bound Chinook and Chum salmon while fishing for other species is an issue that has been around awhile. These fish are not used and are thrown overboard dead. The Chinook bycatch numbers often equaled the subsistence catch of the entire Yukon River Drainage (U.S. and Canada) on good run years.
         Lately the bycatch numbers seem to be increasing to these high levels or more, even though Yukon River Chinook runs remain relatively low (at average to below average). This has sparked a renewed effort at curbing the numbers by fishers groups on the Yukon such as YRDFA.
 

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 Estimates of the Bycatch of Yukon River Chinook Salmon in U.S. Groundfish Fisheries in the Eastern Bering Sea, 1997-1999, Katherine W. Myers, Robert V. Walker, Janet L. Armstrong, and Nancy D. Davis, School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, March 2004

 Reducing Salmon Bycatch in the Pollock Fishery, article by Becca Robbins in the YRDFA newspaper, Yukon Fisheries Update, December 2005

 Unintended Catch: Bycatch of Yukon River Salmon in the Pollock Fishery, Fishermen’s News, March 2006