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The Senate Finance Committee on Monday will take up Senate Bill 82 establishing a buyback program for eastside Cook Inlet setnet permits. H...

The House Special Committee on Fisheries is set to meet at 10 a.m. Tuesday. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is expected to give a pre...

The Senate Resources Committee tomorrow will consider Senate Bill 82 to establish a buyback program for eastside Cook Inlet setnet permits. ...

State Sen. Jesse Bjorkman, R-Nikiski, has introduced Senate Bill 82 to establish a buyback program for eastside Cook Inlet setnet permits.

The Alaska Legislature opens a new session on Jan. 19, and legislators have prefiled some bills of interest to the commercial fishing commun...

A nonprofit, the Eastside Consolidation Association, is pushing for a buyback of Cook Inlet salmon setnet fishing permits. Here's a pr...

State Sen. Peter Micciche, R-Soldotna, today introduced Senate Bill 90 , which would establish a buyback program to reduce the number of eas...

Southeast Alaska salmon purse seiners have voted to permanently retire another 36 permits from the fishery. So says this brief announcemen...

A federal notice published yesterday sets up another referendum on further reducing the number of Southeast Alaska purse seine salmon perm...

Southeast Alaska salmon seiners are mounting yet another effort to reduce their ranks. Recently, seiners were invited to submit bids to se...

State Sen. Peter Micciche, R-Soldotna, has introduced legislation to establish a buyback program for eastside Cook Inlet setnet permits. ...

We told you in November that Southeast Alaska salmon seiners would vote on whether to buy out more permits. So, how did the election turn...

Here's a federal notice indicating Southeast Alaska salmon seine permit holders soon will vote on whether to shoulder a $5.8 million lo...

The Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association is preparing to survey its members — again — on potentially buying back some of the...

The Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association is conducting an "informal poll" of drift gillnetters on the idea of a pe...

Back in January, we told you how Southeast Alaska salmon seiners were considering another round of permit buybacks to further trim the fleet...

Looks like Southeast Alaska salmon seiners are pursuing another buyback to further reduce their ranks. Here's a letter that went out ...

Here is the official notice  on the results of the Southeast Alaska salmon seine permit buyback referendum. The notice names the holders o...

Here are the results  from the Southeast Alaska salmon seine permit buyback referendum. The bottom line is 215 permit holders voted in fav...

The Southeast Alaska Seiners Association is reporting  that voters have approved the permit buyback "by a relatively wide margin."...