{"id":8083,"date":"2015-06-10T11:15:59","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T19:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aksalmonalliance.org\/staging1\/?p=8083"},"modified":"2015-06-10T11:15:59","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T19:15:59","slug":"mcdowell-group-releases-new-economic-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aksalmonalliance.org\/staging1\/2015\/06\/10\/mcdowell-group-releases-new-economic-report\/","title":{"rendered":"McDowell Group Releases New Economic Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>The Economic Impact of the Seafood Industry in Southcentral Alaska<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read or download the report\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/aksalmonalliance.org\/staging1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Economic-Impact-of-Southcentral-Seafood-Industry-online-version.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<em>(UPDATED:\u00a0June 23, 2015 Please note the report has been revised with a few updated photos and text.\u201d\u00a0 See page 17.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>PRESS RELEASE<\/p>\n<p>For Further Information Contact: Alaska Salmon Alliance Arni Thomson, Executive Director athomsonak@gmail.com (907) 929-0388<br \/>\nSeafood Industry a Significant Economic Driver in Southcentral Alaska<br \/>\n(Anchorage, AK &#8211; 06\/10\/2015)<br \/>\nAlaska\u2019s seafood industry has a vibrant and growing presence in Southcentral Alaska. More commercial fishermen live in Southcentral than any other region in the state. The importance of the industry extends much further, creating significant business activity for regional manufacturing, shipping, transportation, tourism, utility, and retail\/wholesale trade sectors.<br \/>\nThe Alaska Salmon Alliance (ASA) commissioned McDowell Group, an Alaska-based research and consulting firm, to study the economic impact of the seafood industry in Southcentral Alaska. This landmark study examines how Southcentral communities, and the region as a whole, benefit from Alaska\u2019s seafood industry.<br \/>\n\u201cSouthcentral is a well-known hub for oil, gas, and tourism. The region also plays a critical role in maximizing the value of commercial fishery resources,\u201d said Paul Dale, ASA Board of Directors president. \u201cThis report clearly documents the importance of the seafood industry in Southcentral Alaska\u2019s regional and local economies.\u201d<br \/>\nThe seafood industry accounted for 8,130 full-time equivalent jobs and over $400 million in labor income in Southcentral Alaska during 2013, including multiplier effects. Approximately half of these jobs and income are in Anchorage, the Mat-Su Borough, and Kenai area. The study also explains the critical role seafood plays in Cordova, Homer, Seward, and Valdez. Nearly 11,000 Southcentral residents were directly employed in the industry at some point during 2013, and are supported by the work of several thousand additional Alaskans in the region.<br \/>\nAlaska possesses tremendous commercial seafood resources, with annual harvests on the order of five to six billion pounds and a first wholesale value exceeding four billion dollars. Most management decisions governing these fisheries take place in Anchorage. Further, CDQ groups &#8211; which own nearly a billion dollars in combined net assets \u2013 are assuming an increasing role in the industry and coordinate much of their activity from managerial offices in either Anchorage or Wasilla.<br \/>\nASA is a trade organization comprised of regional seafood processors and commercial fishermen with the mission of promoting science-based salmon management and policies in order to preserve the long-term opportunities for all salmon user groups in Cook Inlet. \u201cOur organization selected McDowell Group for this project specifically due to the firm\u2019s expertise within the seafood industry, as well as their recent experience evaluating economic impacts of several other key Alaska sectors including oil, gas, visitor, and mining industries,\u201d said Arni Thomson, Executive Director of the Alaska Salmon Alliance. A copy of the full report and additional information about ASA is available online: https:\/\/aksalmonalliance.org\/staging1.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Economic Impact of the Seafood Industry in Southcentral Alaska Read or download the report\u00a0here. (UPDATED:\u00a0June 23, 2015 Please note the report has been revised with a few updated photos and text.\u201d\u00a0 See page 17.) &nbsp; PRESS RELEASE For Further Information Contact: Alaska Salmon Alliance Arni Thomson, Executive Director athomsonak@gmail.com (907) 929-0388 Seafood Industry a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>McDowell Group Releases New Economic Report - Alaska Salmon Alliance<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aksalmonalliance.org\/staging1\/2015\/06\/10\/mcdowell-group-releases-new-economic-report\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"McDowell Group Releases New Economic Report - Alaska Salmon Alliance\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Economic Impact of the Seafood Industry in Southcentral Alaska Read or download the report\u00a0here. 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