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Cuts in commercial fishing budgets lead to reductions in staffing leading to a potential loss in fishing opportunity.

Budget cuts at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game have led to reductions in staffing in the commercial fishing division, leading to a potential loss in fishing opportunity. Since fiscal year 2015, just before the drop in oil prices that led the state to its current fiscal crisis, Fish and Game has seen an approximately 36.4 percent cut in general fund dollars from the state, coming out to an approximately 8.3 percent cut in the total department funding, or $3.9 million less. >click to read< 14:26

ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME DIVISION of COMMERCIAL FISHERIES. NEWS RELEASE

2013 Southern Southeast Inside Subdistrict Sablefish Fishery News Release here

ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME DIVISION OF COMMERCIAL FISHERIES NEWS RELEASE

2013 Yukon River Summer Salmon Fishery News Release # 1 Yukon Area Regulatory Changes Districts Affected: Yukon River Area. The Alaska Board of Fisheries (board) met in Anchorage from January 15 to January 20 to review regulatory fisheries proposals concerning the Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim areas. Read the news release