Alaska Trollers Association has been in battle with the Wild Fish Conservancy for nearly two years, as they have filed a lawsuit to shut down the Southeast Alaska Commercial King Salmon Season with hopes of positively impacting resident Killer Whale populations found in the highly polluted waters of Puget Sound, nearly 1000 miles away from the fleet. This hook and line fishery provides the highest quality salmon to markets around the world and each vessel is ran by fishermen and families that participate in one of the most regulated fisheries in the state, if not the country.