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Alaska commercial fishing news and notes
About me
- Deckboss
- I'm a journalist covering Alaska's commercial fishing industry. My real name is Wesley Loy. Reach me at wloy61@gmail.com.
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- Southeast Chinook runs not so kingly
- Trouble down on the farm
- Hatching 'new tools' for media control in Cordova
- Blotter
- Togiak herring catch is coming up short
- The red-hot Copper River
- 'One hundred letters should be our goal'
- Crew rescued, but tender is in tough spot
- Big job available
- Orca Bay, Kuskokwim Seafoods partner up
- Early reds stay hot at Copper River
- Coast Guard medevacs longliner crewman
- Lawsuit filed over clam digger deaths
- A third of Togiak herring quota taken
- Reds carry opening day at the Copper River
- We're dumping the MSC — really!
- Death reported aboard Icicle processor
- EPA says big mining could hurt Bristol Bay salmon
- Salmon time!
- More hatchery news
- Flying fish redux
- Personnel file
- Healthy, and safe under the ice
- It's on at Togiak!
- Ice forces another extension of snow crab season
- Are hatchery salmon hurting our wild runs?
- Congratulations, Norton Sound crabbers!
- Alaska Juris update
- Trawler crew reported exposed to ammonia leak
- For the record
- St. Paul concerns resolved, EPA files revised sett...
- Worker killed in Seward dock accident
- Record sea ice forces snow crab extension
- A little mishap
- Labor crisis abates for processing industry
- Murkowski agrees with Obama on NOAA home
- Countdown to a new salmon season
- Coast Guard medevacs crewman near Cold Bay
- More details on permit buyback vote
- Salmon seiners reportedly OK permit buyback
- Legislature lavishes aquaculture industry with cash
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8 comments:
Deckboss, I thought you were an investigative journalist. Don't you have any comment on this three-day-old press release? Really, you seem to be all over Japanese consolidation news when its any of the big boys, but do you really need to be clubbed over the head like a baby seal to get the story?!
Orca Bay Seafoods is a member of the Tokusui Corporation. See http://www.tokusui.co.jp/en/group/orca_bay_sea_foods_inc.html. Kuskokwim Seafoods has an interesting background - see http://www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/063010/bus_663596383.shtml.
What are the potential regional implications of this match-up, especially with regards to competition with CVRF? What are the plans of Kuskokwim with its new partner?
I thank you for picking me up!
If Kuskokwim is, in fact, planning to compete with Coastal Villages, we should wish them luck. Pollock provides, you know.
The Japanese giant Maruha Nichiro Holdings also owns a minority stake in Orca Bay. The same conglomerate that owns Peter Pan, Westward and, interestingly, Patagonia Salmon Farming (a large operation in Chile)
Deckboss doesn't care.
OMG!!!
It's a conspiracy!!
The world is against ME! Because it's all about ME!
If only I'd uh went to school and got some book larnin' I coulda get a real job.
CVRF is a Federal Monies program and they have no business competing with private enterprises. Becoming a monopoly with Public Dollars is not the intent of the CDQ program.
Becoming a monopoly with Public Dollars is exactly what's happening in the Norton Sound - the CDQ is in control of everything related to the fisheries, including counting salmon escapement for ADF&G, controling the seats on the ADF&G "approved RAA" which in turn controls the projects with support from ADF&G on the RPT.
Public input is discouraged and not recognized. What does the state have regulations and laws for anyway? Just for the books I guess.
I wonder how long will CVRF allow Kuskokwim Seafoods to operate before they slide in and take over.
A classical case happened in Nome in the 90's - Mike Rink, a private businessman was pushed aside by the Public Dollars of the CDQ program. They bullied him right out of the business. Public Dollars used against private enterprise. Of course they paided him off but only after a long, long battle in court. Public Dollars are not intended to use against society like that. The Federal Government is coming to rural Alaska and perhaps the people will speak up against all this unfair play with Public Dollars.
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