Petersburg will be the newest Community Supporting Member of the United Fishermen of Alaska, or UFA. That follows a unanimous vote by the Borough Assembly at their regular meeting last week.
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Petersburg’s Borough Assembly is in for a long meeting tonight, with eight new items of business on the agenda. They’ll look at signing letters of support for fisheries across the state, in the face of years of hardship.
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As UFA’s director, Frances Leach was vocal in her opposition to Pebble Mine and threats from transboundary mining. She says she’ll be setting up shop as a Juneau lobbyist for commercial fishing groups, environmentalists and nonprofits in 2022.
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Commercial fishermen and processors have questions over ADF&G’s proposal to boost the charter fleet’s allocation of federal pandemic relief. That’s following scores and of letters and emails received by the agency after public comment closed earlier this week.
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