Fish News
Report highlights big economic impact of seafood industry in Southcentral Alaska
A new report by the McDowell Group commissioned by the Alaska Salmon Alliance (ASA) has found that commercial fishing in Southcentral Alaska has an economic impact of $1.2 billion.
read more“The Breach” Documentary Brings Cultural Importance of Alaskan Salmon to Lower 48 (Fish Radio)
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Fish Radio with Laine Welch] July 13, 2015 This is Fish Radio .I’m Stephanie Mangini. For the love of salmon. I’ll tell you more after this Alaskan Quota and Permits in...
read moreSummer at Graveyard: In a seemingly abandoned place, a new economic model emerges and a family adapts
Alaska Dispatch News by Tara Young Suzanna Caldwell – July 11, 2015 In a seemingly abandoned corner of Bristol Bay, a new economic model emerges and a family adapts KVICHAK BAY — Last...
read moreAlaska trollers suffer unfair king salmon quotas amid strong returns
Alaska Dispatch News by Dale Kelley – July 7, 2015 July 1 is the most anticipated day of the year for Alaska trollers. It marks the start of the summer king season when there are usually lots...
read moreNorth Pacific Seafoods Buys Two Alaskan Salmon Processing Facilities from Inlet Fish Producers
SEAFOODNEWS.COM By Peggy Parker – July 1, 2015 North Pacific Seafoods, Inc. (NPSI) has reached an agreement with Inlet Fish Producers, Inc. to buy their Kenai and Kasilof processing...
read moreBy road, lake and river: Boats make their way to Bristol Bay
By Molly Dischner, For the Clarion – June 20, 2015 Editor’s note: This is the first of two parts in reporter Molly Dischner’s journey with a Homer fishing family to Bristol Bay on the eve of...
read moreReport: $1.2 billion of output from Southcentral fishing
By DJ Summers, Alaska Journal of Commerce Published: 2015.06.17 02:43 PM Seafood employs more people in Southcentral than mining in the entire state, pays out more in Anchorage than construction,...
read moreExamining anti-setnet group’s claims about ‘bycatch’
By Laine Welch, Fish Factor/For the Alaska Journal of Commerce Published: 2015.06.17 02:43 PM A one-handed clap best describes the reaction to the 43,000-signature drop off by anti-salmon setnet...
read moreAnti-setnet group scrubs site after submitting signatures
Posted: June 10, 2015 – 5:38pm | By By DJ Summers Alaska Journal of Commerce After the Alaska Fisheries Conservation Alliance submitted 43,000 signatures on June 10 to the Alaska Division of...
read moreAnti-setnet group scrubs site after submitting signatures
By DJ Summers, Alaska Journal of Commerce – June 10, 2015 Editor’s note: At the bottom of this story is a response from the Kenai River Sportfishing Association regarding their inclusion...
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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Mail: PO Box 586, Kenai, AK 99611
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