Fish News
2014 Upper Cook Inlet salmon season summary
The 2014 Upper Cook Inlet salmon fishery netted the third-highest ex-vessel value in the past ten years. This was in spite of the foregone value of overescapements into the Kasilof, Kenai and some...
read moreState of Alaska continues to oppose ballot-box fishery management
State will appeal ruling allowing setnet ban initiative By Molly Dischner, Alaska Journal of Commerce Published: 2014.08.07 11:45 AM The State of Alaska will appeal a Superior Court decision...
read moreSetnetter Ban Ballot Initiative Opposition
The Peninsula Clarion published the following editorial: Setnet initiative inappropriate for fish regs Posted: July 31, 2014 – 7:21pm | Updated: August 1, 2014 – 8:46am …A ballot...
read moreASA responded to recent opinion pieces by Howard Delo in the Mat-Su Frontiersman
Bully politics harm all salmon user groups Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman Posted: Friday, June 20, 2014 10:04 am By Arni Thomson As the representative for the Alaska Salmon Alliance based in Kenai and...
read moreASA helps sponsor seafood cook-off on June 13…
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read moreThe Economic Importance of the Cook Inlet Drift and Set Net Commercial Salmon Fisheries
On May 15 ASA’s Executive Director, Arni Thompson, was the presenter at the Resource Development Council for Alaska’s Breakfast Meeting in Anchorage. The topic was – The Economic...
read moreNOAA Economic report shows Commercial Fishery Values dwarf that of recreational sector
SEAFOODNEWS.COM by John Sackton April 30, 2014 NOAA has released ‘Fisheries Economics of the US’ covering the year 2012, and it should be required reading for all in Congress involved in...
read moreNew fisheries advocacy group plots strategy
By Rashah McChesney Peninsula Clarion April 25, 2014 – 9:59am Photo by Rashah McChesney/Peninsula Clarion In this August 8, 2012 file photo commercial setnet fishers pick a net during a calm...
read moreCourt hears oral argument in setnet ban initiative appeal
By Molly Dischner, Alaska Journal of Commerce Published: 2014.04.22 11:06 PM The Alaska Fisheries Conservation Alliance and the State of Alaska each made a case to an Anchorage Superior Court judge...
read moreGroups Head to Court to Support State, Treadwell Decision to Stop Set Netter Ban Initiative
Groups Head to Court to Support State, Treadwell Decision to Stop Set Netter Ban Initiative Resources for All Alaskans has submitted a legal brief in support of the State of Alaska’s decision to...
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.
Contact Information
Email: aksalmonalliance@gmail.com
Mail: PO Box 586, Kenai, AK 99611
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110 N. Willow St. #108
Kenai AK 99611
Phone: (907)395-7068