Monday, November 21, 2022

Alaska Alaska Symphony of Seafood winners announced National Fisherman - November 19, 2022 The Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation announced the first-place winners of the Alaska Symphony of Seafood, and two special awards for the Seattle People’s Choice and the Bristol Bay Choice, during Pacific Marine Expo in Seattle Friday, Nov. 18. https://www.nationalfisherman.com/alaska/alaska-symphony-of-seafood-winners-announced Alaska, Washington senators team up to seek disaster declaration for closed crab harvests Alaska Beacon by Yereth Rosen - November 17, 2022 Alaska’s two Republican U.S. senators joined with Washington state’s two Democratic U.S. senators on Thursday to request an immediate disaster declaration to help fishers and fishing-dependent businesses and communities cope with an unprecedented shutdown of Bering Sea crab fishing. https://alaskabeacon.com/briefs/alaska-washington-senators-team-up-to-seek-disaster-declaration-for-closed-crab-harvests/ Bristol Bay’s boom year National Fisherman by Kirk Moore - November 18, 2022 The 2022 sockeye salmon harvest from Bristol Bay broke all records, a flood of fish that far surpassed the last record season in 1995. “There’s been a lot of good years, but nothing like 2022,” said Andy Wink, executive director of the Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association, said at the Washington Maritime Economic Forecast Breakfast session Friday at the Pacific Marine Expo in Seattle. https://www.nationalfisherman.com/alaska/bristol-bay-s-boom-year Pacific Seafood Processors Association 1900 W Emerson Place Suite 205, Seattle, WA 98119 Phone: 206.281.1667 E-mail: admin@pspafish.net; Website: www.pspafish.net Our office days/hours are Monday-Friday 8:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. *Inclusion of a news article, report, or other document in this email does not imply PSPA support or endorsement of the information or opinion expressed in the document.