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Alaska Salmon Alliance Letter to the Editor – Seafood.com News
Posted: Monday, November 11, 2013 Letters: Alaska sport fishermen aim to destroy state’s salmon management with ballot measure SEAFOOD.COM NEWS [Letters] Nov 11, 2013 To the Editor of...
read moreSportfishing Advocates Push For Ban On Cook Inlet Set Nets
By Alexandra Gutierrez, APRN – Juneau | November 6, 2013 – 3:11 pm Between oil taxes, marijuana regulation, mining, and the minimum wage, there’s a mess of ballot issues that Alaskans...
read moreCall the king salmon taken by Cook Inlet setnetters what it is: bycatch – Opinion
By Craig Medred November 10, 2013 When comes the time to call a spade a spade? As a reporter, I have for years consciously avoided using the term “bycatch” when referring to the king...
read moreSport group targets set netters
Alliance looks to ban setnets in ‘urban’ areas of state Posted: November 7, 2013 – 9:02pm | Updated: November 8, 2013 – 12:03pm By Rashah McChesney Peninsula Clarion The...
read moreAlaska Salmon Alliance Brochure
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read moreCook Inlet Driftnet & Set Net Salmon Fisheries Economic Report
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read moreAuthor questions sport group’s use of food security study
The Kenai River Sportfishing Association has used elements of a recently released study about food security on the Kenai Peninsula to assert that commercial fishing should be curtailed in favor of sport and personal-use fishing. Not so fast, according to the one of the authors of the study, Philip Loring.
read moreCook Inlet’s Commercial Fisheries
Summer is almost here and there is a very obvious tension on the Kenai Peninsula related to the role of salmon in local communities and how to qualify what that role is among different user groups. Yes, we eat a lot of fish here and the availability of salmon to anglers is important. Salmon is a fabulous source of food, superb nutritional value. Everyone should eat it. However, to suggest that it is a real subsistence product for anglers is questionable.
read moreAlaska Salmon Alliance Press Release Re: Anti-setnet ballot initiative
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read moreCook Inlet commercial salmon worth $350M in 2011
BY MOLLY DISCHNER, ALASKA JOURNAL OF COMMERCE How much is the salmon coming out of Cook Inlet worth? According to a recent report produced for the Alaska Salmon Alliance, the fishery had a $54...
read moreBoard of Directors
Norm Darch, Executive Director
Mike Simpson, E&E Foods, VP of Alaska Operations (President)
Erik Huebsch, Kasilof Drift boat owner (Vice-President)
Janet Carroll, OBI Foods (Board Member)
Joseph Person, Setnet Fisherman (Board Member)
Richard King, Rogue Wave Processing (Board Member)
Robert Nathanson, OBI Foods (Alternate Member)
Ryan Doktor, E&E Foods, Plant manager (Alternate Member)
The Economic Value of Alaska's Seafood Industry
The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI) is a public-private partnership between the State of Alaska and the Alaska seafood industry established to foster economic development of the state’s most valuable renewable natural resource.
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Email: aksalmonalliance@gmail.com
Mail: PO Box 586, Kenai, AK 99611
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Kenai AK 99611
Phone: (907)395-7068