Fiscal cliff debate threatens ASMI int’l marketing budget
Congressional spending cuts could smack the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute with a 40 percent reduction in future federal “Market Access Program” grants that provided more than half of the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute. “The ‘Farm Bill,’ especially the MAP program, is in the bull’s eye, period. There is no doubt about that,” warned Naresh Shrestha, ASMI’s chief financial officer, during the institute’s “all hands” meeting in Seattle, Nov. 28 to 30. Read more: http://www.alaskajournal.com/Alaska-Journal-of-Commerce/December-Issue-3-2012/Fiscal-cliff-debate-threatens-ASMI-intl-marketing-budget/#ixzz2F9OkYZD0
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