For most Alaskans, the June <a href="https://www.npfmc.org/" target="_blank" rel="" title="https://www.npfmc.org/">North Pacific Fishery Management Council</a> meeting didn’t make the news. For communities along the Yukon River, it should have. The council has been weighing performance standards for pelagic trawl gear, nets used in the Bering Sea pollock fishery that catch chinook and chum salmon bound for Western and Interior Alaska rivers.