Restaurants have been operating with smaller wait staffs, selling fewer dishes at higher prices.
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A salmon glut has sent prices plunging, and economists don’t know when they’ll recover
Three years of huge returns in Bristol Bay created a surplus of sockeye in the market.
With prices low, many fishermen are skipping Southeast’s Dungeness crab season
OBI Seafoods says there’s still a lot of Dungeness crab left over from last year — it’s expensive and customers just aren’t buying it.
USDA to buy nearly $70M worth of Alaska sockeye for food assistance programs
It’s a win for the state’s marketing branch, which had some help from Alaska’s congressional delegation.
With no commercial interest in Togiak herring, Alaska looks to the Atlantic for inspiration
As the market for roe has shrunk, the remote fishery has become financially unfeasible.
Alaska Legislature sends $300K in salmon donations to Ukraine
At the request of the Alaska Legislature, the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute is sending over $300,000 worth of Alaskan seafood, or about 3,600 cases of canned pink salmon, to Ukraine.
Gov. Dunleavy’s budget vetoes include $5M cut for seafood marketing institute
The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute is a state agency with a mission to increase the economic value of Alaska seafood and create a demand for it.
Alaska lawmakers applaud Biden administration ban on Russian seafood imports
The ban on Russian seafood imports is part of a series of escalating sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
Alaska seafood showing ‘partial recovery,’ says state seafood marketing arm
Alaska’s seafood industry is still struggling with problems brought on and exacerbated by COVID-19, like supply chain issues and mitigation costs.
State flags lowered for former Alaska lawmaker Bill Hudson
Hudson was a Republican who represented Juneau’s Mendenhall Valley District from 1987 to 2003.