• Christine O'Connor fills an open harvester seat on the board. She is executive director of the Alaska Telecom Association, ASMI's latest monthly marketing update says. She holds a Bristol Bay salmon setnet permit, the Alaska Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission database shows.
• Eric Deakin fills a seat designated for a large processor. He is CEO of Coastal Villages Region Fund, one of Alaska's six community development quota organizations.
With these appointments, all seven seats on the ASMI board are now filled.
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O'Connor takes over the seat previously held by Duncan Fields, whom the governor removed from the ASMI board due to criminal charges pending against him.
Deakin takes over the seat held by John Daly, now an executive with Silver Bay Seafoods.
What has ASMI done all these years
They sure haven’t helped the fisherman we received a better price fifty years ago then we have
today that’s why fisherman have
been struggling they should be
looked at for colluding with the
Processors.
That's right! All those processors that have been reaping all the rewards of low quality, high volume fish! There's OB, Peter Pan, icicle, wards cove, western, Snopac, the list goes on and on! Good thing the fishermen got together and started a processor to drive all the competition out of business...errr, I mean get better $ for fishermen.
CVRF is one of the few CDQs with skin in the game. Nice to see Eric willing to step up.
Think of the fishing infrastructure or permit buy backs that could have been put in place with the millions spent on ASMI.
ASMI’s budget over the last 20 years has likely ranged from $10–25 million annually, with industry contributions ($6–16 million), federal grants ($6–13 million, increasing to $17.5 million in 2025), and sporadic state appropriations ($0–10 million).
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