Alaska's Tight Budget Likely to Pinch Salmon Fishery Management This Season (Fish Radio)
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Fish Radio with Laine Welch] May 28, 2015
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch – Alaska’s fisheries could get corked due to the state budget stall. More after this
Next week more than 20,000 state workers could get 30 day layoff notices due to the Alaska legislature’s inability to pass a state budget. Workers would be off the job by July 1, at the start of the state fiscal year. It’s all happening at the heart of salmon season, and those and other state fisheries could get corked by the lawmakers’ inaction.
“There is some budget – but how we proceed through the fiscal year from July 1 is still what we’re working on. It’s about 27 or 28 percent of our normal amount. So there is some operating capital for us to work in the field, and do our management jobs and responsibilities.”
Jeff Regnart is director of Commercial Fisheries at the Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game...
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