“We’re going to talk about that and try to come up with how we can rewrite the formula and make some adjustments and see how that goes. But clearly, there’s no math model that I’ve ever seen that shows that we can afford to not change that dividend formula.”
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It looks like Alaska’s commercial salmon industry is pulling itself out of a pandemic rut. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game released its preliminary statewide summary for the year Nov. 10. The harvests for all five salmon species in all fisheries equaled $720.4 million.
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Southeast Alaska’s Senate Seat A represents a geographical area that covers most of Southeast Alaska. Stedman has held the seat for nearly 20 years.
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The village corporation in Yakutat has been ordered by the State of Alaska to change the way it runs shareholder elections. This comes after two years of conflict over logging in the Southeast Alaska community–with the corporation on one side and many shareholders on the other.
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State managers closed Southeast’s Dungeness summer fishery two weeks early by emergency order because of low harvest numbers. If there are a lot of soft-shell crab in a shortened summer season, then the fall can go the full two-month length. This year, dock-side sampling indicated 28 percent soft-shell crab, which is enough to allow a full fall season.
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