AK Supreme Court Rejects Set Net Initiative

The Alaska Supreme Court has rejected a proposed ballot initiative that sought to ban commercial shore gill nets and set nets in urban, non-subsistence areas.
The decision reverses a 2014 lower court ruling that ordered that the initiative be certified by the lieutenant governor, who had previously declined to certify it. The measure had been slated to appear on the 2016 ballot.
The high court, in a decision Thursday siding with the lieutenant governor’s office, said the proposed initiativ