Fishing provides essential jobs in the Kenai Borough

Maritime industry largest employer on peninsula Posted: July 5, 2016 – 8:48pm  |  Updated: July 5, 2016 – 8:55pm Photo by Ben Boettger/Peninsula Clarion A commercial fishing boat leaves the mouth of the Kenai River for a day of fishing in Cook Inlet on...

Is Alaska getting full value from fishery resources?

Salmon and other fishery resources in Alaska are constitutionally required to be managed for both sustained yield and maximum benefit to the people. Allowing huge quantities of surplus salmon (beyond the number needed for escapements) to go unharvested does not meet...

Latest McDowell Group seafood report shows job growth

By:  DJ Summers Alaska Journal of Commerce Posted:  Wed, 01/20/2016 – 1:57pm Harvesting Alaska seafood ranks between oil and tourism in economic impact, according to a new report detailing on the commercial fishing industry. The Juneau-based economics firm...

ASMI releases new economic study

Alaska Seafood Industry Pumps $14.6 billion a Year into US Economy SEAFOODNEWS.COM By Peggy Parker – January 20, 2016 A new study commissioned by the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute found that economic impacts of the commercial fishing industry in Alaska to...

Alaska steps back from the brink – John Sackton Editorial

SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Editor’s View] by John Sackton January 5, 2016 The Alaska Supreme Court decision preventing a ballot initiative to ban salmon set nets in parts of Cook Inlet last week allowed the seafood industry to heave a sigh of relief. But like any complex...