Monday, March 28, 2022 (Juneau) – Governor Mike Dunleavy today appointed four Alaskans to fill open seats on the Alaska Board of Game and the Alaska Board of Fisheries, and made one reappointment to the Board of Game.
We are Alaskans and fishing is an Alaska resource. It is time to recognize commercial and sport as one.
The Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Labor announced 20,000 additional H-2B nonagriculture worker visas for the first half of fiscal year 2022.
Non-profit SeaShare named E&E Foods its 2020 Donor of the Year. Last year, the company donated 232,000 seafood servings to food banks and feeding centers.
On January 15, the Dunleavy Administration welcomed-in 2021 with new proposed rules to strip Alaskans of our rights to keep water in our streams and lakes to protect our fish (see original post, below).
Now, in response to strong public pushback, the Alaska Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has extended the public comment period until April 2, 2021 and issued a response to various questions presented about the proposed rules.
I am writing on behalf of the Alaska Salmon Alliance (ASA) to request you join our effort to keep the historic salmon drift gill net fishery open in Cook Inlet. As hard as it might be to believe, the State of Alaska has recently submitted a proposal to do just that- close the historic salmon fishery in Cook Inlet in order to avoid following mandated best practices for managing salmon fisheries. This letter is to provide background on the issue and request your support to keep the historic salmon fishery healthy for the benefit of our local industry and our communities.