Sen. Cantwell rips reported NOAA purge

Here's her statement.

Commissioner outlines king rebuilding efforts

Alaska Fish and Game Commissioner Doug Vincent-Lang has a piece on the Anchorage Daily News site headlined Here's what the state is doing to rebuild king salmon stocks in the Gulf of Alaska.

Fix those buoys!

State Sen. Forrest Dunbar, D-Anchorage, has introduced a resolution urging Congress and NOAA to address outages of key weather and wave buoys including the Seal Rocks Buoy at Hinchinbrook Entrance, where oil tankers pass.

Dive boat, one aboard, reported lost in Southeast

Here's the story from KRBD in Ketchikan.

More from Juneau

Interesting bills are dropping at the request of the legislative task force evaluating the state's troubled seafood industry.

We'll update this post as bills are introduced.

House Bill 116 — Commercial fishing insurance co-ops

House Bill 117 — Set gillnet co-ops

House Bill 129 — Fisheries product development tax credit

Senate Bill 135 — Sharing of fish tax revenue with municipalities

Juneau watch

The House Special Committee on Fisheries tomorrow will consider the governor's appointment of Rick Green to the Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission.

Here's his resume.

'Creating a new fish farming industry'

Gov. Mike Dunleavy is offering legislation to allow limited finfish farming in Alaska.

The bill would authorize "the cultivation and sale of certain finfish in natural or artificial inland, closed-system bodies of water," said a letter from the governor to House Speaker Bryce Edgmon.

It would prohibit farming pink, chum, sockeye, coho, Chinook and Atlantic salmon.