Alaska Fishermen's Vote Highlights Rift In Copper River Marketing Group
March 20, 2015 | 1 min to read
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A growing number of restaurant customers and grocery store shoppers in the country are asking for Alaska’s Copper River sockeye salmon by name.
But the marketing effort that popularized the firm, red fish could be in jeopardy as the commercial fishermen who provide much of its funding decide whether to pull their support.
Ten years ago, the fleet of drift fishermen who hang nets from their boats to catch salmon in Prince William Sound voted to assess itself a 1 percent tax to fund Alaska’s first regional seafood development association.
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