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Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy is seeking federal disaster relief for several 2024 salmon fisheries:

• Alaska Peninsula sockeye and South Peninsula pink salmon fisheries

• Chignik salmon fishery

• Kodiak pink salmon fishery

• Lower Cook Inlet pink salmon fishery

• Prince William Sound pink and chum salmon fisheries

• Kotzebue District salmon fishery

The governor has written to the U.S. Department of Commerce requesting disaster determinations for the fisheries. His letters are available here.

Trident's big contract

Seattle-based Trident Seafoods Corp. has won a contract to sell the U.S. Department of Agriculture nearly 10.6 million pounds of Alaska pollock products — frozen fillets, fish sticks and nuggets — for $25.1 million.

The purchase is "in support of child nutrition and other related domestic food distribution programs," says this USDA announcement.

No fish farming, says Bristol Bay group

The Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association has issued a policy statement on finfish farming in Alaska.

The statement comes in apparent reaction to Gov. Mike Dunleavy's legislation to legalize farming some fish species, though not salmon.

Juneau watch

Rep. Nellie Jimmie, D-Toksook Bay, today introduced House Bill 125 to reform how the governor appoints members of the Alaska Board of Fisheries.

The bill specifies, among other things, that the governor shall appoint "two members who represent subsistence fishing, from a list of four names submitted by the Alaska Federation of Natives."