Monday, May 18, 2026

UFA seeks new skipper

The state's top commercial fishing organization, United Fishermen of Alaska, is recruiting a new executive director.

The position carries an estimated starting salary of $90,000 to $100,000 depending on experience, a job description says.

The successful candidate will replace the outgoing executive director, Tracy Welch, who just won legislative confirmation to the Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hopefully she can read the Limited Entry Act, because nobody else at the UFA has read it in decades.

Anonymous said...

Tracy scored at CFEC. She'll get a big bump up in pay and will have far less work to do.

Anonymous said...

It's always a score to get a government job, too be sure these fishermen keep fishing for the lowest prices in history, as ADF&G reported. "Adjusted for inflation (CPI, 2025 prices), the 2025 exvessel value estimate of $541 million was the 13th lowest exvessel value reported since 1975..." Far less work is always best in this industry, fishing for tuition.