Resolution seeks better balance between subsistence, small business interests and industry on federal council managing a million square miles of Alaska offshore waters, most notably state's prized halibut fishery.

International Pacific Halibut Commission staff are making recommendations based on lots of confusing scientific jargon. Halibut by-catch, the problem most fishermen are concerned with, doesn't yet have a fancy acronym.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski last week issued a statement warning of the "great consequences" of illegal fishing. Her former fisheries aide, Arne Fuglvog, was convicted earlier this year of fish piracy, himself.

Southeast halibut charters, struggling to stay in business, want the Feds to consider closing down and limiting catches the old fashioned way.