{"id":8022,"date":"2015-02-11T13:13:28","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T22:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aksalmonalliance.org\/staging1\/?p=8022"},"modified":"2015-02-11T13:13:28","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T22:13:28","slug":"seafood-alaskas-sustainable-bounty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aksalmonalliance.org\/staging1\/2015\/02\/11\/seafood-alaskas-sustainable-bounty\/","title":{"rendered":"Seafood: Alaska\u2019s Sustainable Bounty"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"article-title\">Alaska Business Monthly &#8211;<\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"article-title\">Seafood: Alaska\u2019s Sustainable Bounty<\/h1>\n<div class=\"by-line\">By Will Swagel<\/div>\n<div class=\"by-line\">Published: <time datetime=\"2015-02-01 11:01\">February 1, 2015<\/time><\/div>\n<div class=\"by-line\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"by-line\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"share-tools\" style=\"float: right; top: auto;\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-image\" class=\"image-container\" style=\"width: 620px;\">\n<div class=\"data-picture-block\" data-picture=\"\" data-alt=\"Fishermen in the Bering Sea working on pollock haul back.\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.akbizmag.com\/images\/cache\/cache_0\/cache_b\/cache_b\/FebSeafood-0029fbb0.jpeg?ver=1422907469&amp;aspectratio=1.501210653753\" alt=\"Fishermen in the Bering Sea working on pollock haul back.\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"photo-description\">Fishermen in the Bering Sea working on pollock haul back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"photo-credit\">\u00a9 Steven Kazlowski\/AlaskaStock.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>When counting fish, Alaska is a world class producer. In fact, if it were a separate country, Alaska would place among the top dozen fishing nations in the world and rank as the sixth largest seafood exporter. Economic studies peg Alaska as producing about $4.5 billion in seafood annually (first wholesale value). More than sixty thousand workers harvest, process, manage, and market Alaska\u2019s seafood with in-state net earnings and payroll of about $1.7 billion. That\u2019s not counting indirect employment and multiplier effects, which create an additional eleven thousand jobs in Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also not counting quality of life improvements for Alaskans in scores of coastal towns and villages. The commercial fishing fleet provides valuable backhaul for shippers and helps to increase the market for\u2014thus lowering the price of\u2014fuel, food, and other supplies. Local fleets support the banking, telecommunications, and fabrication industries. Tyson Fick, communications director for the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI), says he has been told by transportation industry reps that Alaska consumers would have to pay higher freight rates if ships and planes were not using their southbound leg to carry fish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLarge parts of the state are unaware of how valuable and significant commercial fishing is,\u201d says Gunnar Knapp, director of the Institute of Economic and Social Research at the University of Alaska Anchorage (ISER). Knapp has studied the Alaska commercial fishing industry for more than three decades.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an immensely large and valuable industry,\u201d Fick says. \u201cThis sometimes gets missed by people who don\u2019t live along the coast, either outside a fishing area or outside the industry itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Quality Leader<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alaska dominates world production of sockeye salmon and Pacific halibut and is a major producer of other species such as Alaskan pollock, Pacific cod, king crab, and pink salmon. Alaska\u2019s commercial catch includes a broad number of species: pollock and cod; all five species of Pacific salmon; halibut; rockfish; sablefish; king, opilio, and Dungeness crab; and several kinds of invertebrates, such as geoduck clams and sea cucumbers.<\/p>\n<p>Globally, Alaska produces one to two percent of all seafood and 10 to 13 percent of the world\u2019s salmon. Alaskan fishermen typically catch about 55 percent of the entire US seafood harvest by volume.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Due to copyright law, the Alaska Salmon Alliance cannot repost full articles. You can read the whole article\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.akbizmag.com\/Alaska-Business-Monthly\/February-2015\/Seafood-Alaskas-Sustainable-Bounty\/\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Because the Alaska Salmon Alliance wish to provide a wide breadth of information, we sometimes provide links and documents that may conflict or present only one perspective on an issue.\u00a0 Because of that, we feel it is important to note that none of the content provided on our website necessarily represents the views or opinions of the Alaska Salmon Alliance, excepting, of course, those articles authored by us.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska Business Monthly &#8211; Seafood: Alaska\u2019s Sustainable Bounty By Will Swagel Published: February 1, 2015 Fishermen in the Bering Sea working on pollock haul back. \u00a9 Steven Kazlowski\/AlaskaStock.com When counting fish, Alaska is a world class producer. 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