Gov. Sean Parnell last week signed the fiscal 2012 capital budget, which totals more than $2.7 billion. Deckboss took a look and found quite a few items of interest to the fishing industry — items that survived the governor's veto pen. Here's a list, starting with the state department affiliated with each project.
• Commerce — Bristol Bay Borough, port expansion, $2,000,000
• Commerce — Cordova, breakwater extension and boat ramp, $1,400,000
• Fish and Game — Cordova, dock and uplands improvements, $650,000
• Commerce — Egegik, dock repair, $55,000
• Commerce — Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Mariculture Research Facility, $300,000
• Commerce — Kodiak Island Borough, Anton Larsen dock, $2,000,000
• Commerce — Kodiak Maritime Museum, Harbor Gateway Project, $298,000
• Commerce — Metlakatla Indian Community, Annette Island Packing Co. freezer expansion, $2,000,000
• Commerce — Prince of Wales Island, Alaska Oyster Cooperative, upgrade existing building to a shellfish processing facility, $106,500
• Commerce — Seward, Alutiq Pride Shellfish Hatchery upgrade, $250,000
• Commerce — Seward, CDQ fishing fleet relocation study, $400,000
• Commerce — Wrangell, boat yard improvements, $3,700,000
• Commerce — Yukon River Drainage Fisheries Association, Yukon River Chinook salmon management plan, $300,000
• Commerce — Alaska Sustainable Salmon Fund program, $1,030,000
• Fish and Game — Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund, $12,000,000
• Fish and Game — Pacific Salmon Treaty Chinook fishery mitigation, $7,500,000
• Commerce — Celebrate Seafood Inc., advancing a National Seafood Marketing Association, $200,000
• Transportation — Feasibility study, joint moorage facility for Alaska Marine Highway System ferries and NOAA research vessels, $500,000
• Public Safety — Marine fisheries patrol improvements, $2,000,000
• Fish and Game — Westward Region Didson sonar purchase, $105,000
• Commerce — Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association, Trail Lakes Hatchery maintenance and upgrade, $865,000
• Commerce — Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association, Tustumena Lake smolt out-migration monitoring, $45,000
• Commerce — Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association, Tutka Bay Hatchery maintenance and upgrade, $591,000
• Commerce — Douglas Island Pink and Chum Inc., Snettisham Hatchery maintenance and upgrade, $1,250,000
• Commerce — Kodiak Regional Aquaculture Association, Kitoi Bay Hatchery maintenance and upgrade, $1,308,000
• Commerce — Kodiak Regional Aquaculture Association, lake nutrient enrichment project, $720,000
• Commerce — Kodiak Regional Aquaculture Association, Pillar Creek Hatchery maintenance and upgrade, $767,000
• Commerce — Northern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association, net pens and hatchery deferred maintenance, $707,800
• Commerce — Northern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association, Hidden Falls Hatchery maintenance and upgrade, $1,044,000
• Commerce — Prince William Sound Aquaculture Corp., nets pens and hatchery deferred maintenance, $426,000
• Commerce — Prince William Sound Aquaculture Corp., Cannery Creek hatchery maintenance and upgrade, $2,224,000
• Commerce — Prince William Sound Aquaculture Corp., Gulkana Hatchery maintenance and upgrade, $838,000
• Commerce — Prince William Sound Aquaculture Corp., Main Bay Hatchery maintenance and upgrade, $2,113,000
• Commerce — Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association, net pens and hatchery deferred maintenance, $400,000
There must be some pretty convincing lobbyists from South Central Alaska. It looks like the Western Alaska Coastal Area from the Yukon River west is being left out in the cold and dark.
ReplyDeleteThe Exxon Valdez oil spill devastated Prince William Sound. It is about time that the communities and municipalities around PWS(Valdez, Cordova, Whittier, Chenga & Tatitlek) got some help. With the funds going to PWSAC, this will ultimately help the hatchery program continue on being the world class corporation it is. It benefits all user groups, subsistence, personal use, sports & commercial.
ReplyDeleteSweet!
ReplyDeletePND Engineering has a hand in much of those dock improvements and studies.
ReplyDeleteNot to mention their role in the Anchorage Port expansion project, among other boondoggles and troublesome projects.
From the looks of their "lobbying" pattern, they are taking a page out of the Abramoff playbook. Concoct a crisis, and charge huge fees to solve it for their "clients".
Oh yeah, a "world-class" hatchery, just like they do it Outside.
ReplyDeleteTell us again how the hatcheryindustry is economically self-sustaining?
If the hatcheries produced net economic benefit, the hatchery system wouldn't be dependent on state funding to cover hatchery "upgrades" deferred maintenance. Would it??
The hatchery funding in the budget is primarily (but not all) for State owned building maintenance. The department of commerce says that there is something like a 10 to 1 return on state investment in hatcheries so far, not too bad I'd say. That is why we want one in Yakutat.
ReplyDeleteDo you have a specific citation for the Department of Commerce's 10:1 benefit statement?
ReplyDeleteWhat are the lease/rentt payments to the state for the use of the hatchery facility?
ReplyDeleteI don't give a shit what commerce "says". They don't have any worthwile information on their website about FERLF, their (very) generous loan program that is supposed to be funding things like this. All they have is some lame, gerneralized powerpoint from 2007. Sheesh.
ReplyDelete$400,000 for the CDQ fishing fleet relocation study in Seward should not have been included. The 6 CDQ groups could very well have paid for this study by donating $67,000 each - I'm sure they could have canned a lame worker who has been getting a big salary just for taking up office space. Besides that, who is to say that the pollock fishery won't eventually crash from all the pressure put on it to provide cheap fish for the world market.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, the state is committing 20 million for various salmon projects - Sustainable Salmon; Salmon Recovery; and Salmon Treaty. It's about time.
Maybe those millions will be more productive than those Salmon Initiative millions of the 1990's and what is presently being spent to study salmon on the Y-K system from the Federal government. All those tens of millions spent and it's the same old, same old especially here in the Norton Sound. 5.4 million dollars in the Norton Sound Salmon Initiative of the 1990's and where are the reports for the people?
With the millions NSRAA has in the
ReplyDeletebank I can't believe they got a penny!
Great- the locals in Naukati (Prince of Wales Island) that are priveleged enough to get to work on the shellfish coop building will have money to buy all that meth. Instead of stealing to support their habbit.
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