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Aleutians East Borough Mayor aims to combat loss of fishing permits to drug addiction
With an “alarming” loss of commercial salmon fishing permits in rural communities, Aleutians East Borough Mayor Alvin Osterback has an idea on reversing the “graying of the fleet,” by allowing young fishermen to establish themselves with leadership experience on the water. His plan also aims to combat the loss of fishing permits by drug addicts who inherit and then sell their fishing privileges in order to stay high. The plan to add a second name to salmon permits will ultimately require legislative approval. It has already been endorsed by a group representing local government officials. “A whole generation of fishermen are missing because of drugs,”,,, >click to read< 08:08
Fighting the tide
After three years of work, a University of Alaska Fairbanks study of the state’s commercial fishing industry has reached one conclusion nobody in the 49th state wants to talk about and another that not even the authors of the report seem willing to confront. The first conclusion is barely disguised in the report: “Since limited entry programs were implemented in state commercial fisheries, permit holdings by rural residents local to their fisheries have declined by 30 percent. Some regions like Bristol Bay have lost over 50 percent of their local rural permits.” A systemic fail? click here to read the story 17:11
