Bristol Bay radio station KDLG reports the following:
Fishermen are planning to stage a protest in the Naknek River entrance on Thursday, July 20. Organizers say they will anchor from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. across the river entrance to oppose the low price from processors.
If some of you been doing this for almost your whole life or just 5 years you should know enough to know that high volumes flood the market and it takes over a year to sell last season's catch. You can't be that naive and I'm sure more than half the captains seen this coming. And now you guys ruined the prices for all of Alaska salmon prices. If anyone should be protesting it should be the rest of the fishermen throughout the state on shutting down BB sockeye fishery! Sorry not sorry!
Amazing this group, who let AIFMA fold, after the processors used to beg them to go into price negotiations in November every year. The strike of 1991 destroyed this origination. Then a few short years later, new Kvichak’s were selling for less than .50 cents on the dollar. Alaska is a unique place, shown best when the Alaska legislature passed the bill to require the processors to post the price on the fish ticket. Bristol Bay’s was famous, when the processors posted a penny a pound and the fleet went fishing. 32 brain cells are easily overworked in this fishery.
Fishing is a commodity business. Like any commodity prices go up and down. Sometimes they go down to a point that doesn't seem fair. You always have the option to tie up the boat and go get a land job.
If you didn't see this low price coming back in June you are not paying attention!!
ReplyDeletePiss poor time to worry about price.
ReplyDeleteThey already have your fish, what are you going to do now? With all the excess inventory left from last season this should have been obvious.
ReplyDeleteThe protesters probably won’t have a market next year.
ReplyDeleteshould have protested in june to cut supply. but no. catch close to another 40 mil. nearly 150 mil in 3 yrs. what market can absorb that volume?
ReplyDeleteYou guys fish the whole season without a price. What did you expect. A miracle? You should protest before the fishery not after.
ReplyDeleteIf some of you been doing this for almost your whole life or just 5 years you should know enough to know that high volumes flood the market and it takes over a year to sell last season's catch. You can't be that naive and I'm sure more than half the captains seen this coming. And now you guys ruined the prices for all of Alaska salmon prices. If anyone should be protesting it should be the rest of the fishermen throughout the state on shutting down BB sockeye fishery! Sorry not sorry!
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ReplyDeleteAmazing this group, who let AIFMA fold, after the processors used to beg them to go into price negotiations in November every year. The strike of 1991 destroyed this origination. Then a few short years later, new Kvichak’s were selling for less than .50 cents on the dollar. Alaska is a unique place, shown best when the Alaska legislature passed the bill to require the processors to post the price on the fish ticket. Bristol Bay’s was famous, when the processors posted a penny a pound and the fleet went fishing. 32 brain cells are easily overworked in this fishery.
ReplyDeleteSo true! 🤣
DeleteFishing is a commodity business. Like any commodity prices go up and down. Sometimes they go down to a point that doesn't seem fair. You always have the option to tie up the boat and go get a land job.
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