The election will come in the fall following the fishing season, the association said today in its Waypoints newsletter.
As it stands now, only driftnet permit holders are members of BBRSDA.
Bristol Bay salmon driftnetters in 2006 voted to approve a 1 percent tax on the ex-vessel price of fish sold.
Presumably, this will be the main question facing setnetters in the election — whether to shoulder a tax to support BBRSDA.
3 comments:
Bristol Bay setnetters have benefited for 16 years from tens of millions of dollars paid into the BBRSDA by the drift fleet without as much as a thank you. I guess there is such thing as a free lunch.
You ought to see what the free lunch costs at Alyeska your paying for 10:12. It ain't $10.12 a platter, for three hots and a cot, for the boards three day holidays. Sockeye salmon don't ski down a mountain, until you look at this Boards assistance in the continual slide of grounds prices to the lowest inflation adjusted prices in history. What is a dollar a lb, adjusted from the 1970's to todays rate, from the real free lunch Committee?
Ever Play Monopoly? In the Community Chest Pile of Cards, you must have drawn the "Pay Poor School Tax of $15.00"
This is not about setnetter representation on the BBRSDA, this is a political move by the Dillingham politicos to commandeer and control influence of the entire Bristol Bay salmon fleet to continue the decimation of the Nushagak king salmon run by the Nush setnetters AND the local subsistence harvesters. Wake up and smell the coffee. The setnetters have been getting the milk for free, why would they need to pay for it? ADFG knows how to manage for king escapement, they've bern doing it in Cook Inlet and Cordova for years now. Get the lead line off of the bottom!
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