KODIAK — As we look back at Alaska’s seafood industry over the past year, consider this: 62 percent of our nation’s seafood landings comes from Alaska, as does 96 percent of all U.S. wild salmon.
Alaska ranks ninth in the world in terms of seafood production.
The seafood industry is second only to oil in revenue it generates to state coffers, and it provides more Alaska jobs than oil/gas, mining, tourism and timber combined. Alaska’s abundant and sustainable fishery resources are the envy of all other seafood producers, and its fishery management is regarded as a model around the world.
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