Challenges and Strategies for the Alaska Salmon Industry

Authors

• Gunnar Knapp

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Description

The salmon industry is very important to Alaska—in particular to coastal communities.The Alaska salmon industry is facing an economic crisis. One cause of the crisis is competition from farmed salmon, which has severely depressed prices for Alaska salmon, however, farmed salmon is only part of the problem: the salmon industryalso faces other major challenges. The salmon industry is experiencing painful adjustments with severe economic and social consequences for Alaska.There isn’t any way to avoid painful adjustment. The issue is how best to create the conditions for a more profitable industry. This presentation provides an overview of the many complexities of the situation facing the industry in 2002.

Publication Date

4-13-2002

Keywords

salmon, commercial fishery, policy, management, complexity

Recommended Citation

Knapp, Gunnar, "Challenges and Strategies for the Alaska Salmon Industry" (2002). Presentations. 103.
https://scholarworks.alaska.edu/uaa_iser_presentations/103

Handle

http://hdl.handle.net/11122/12034