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November 9, 2011
Fish Factor: Dept. of Labor releases fishing employment report (Capital City Weekly)
By Laine Welch |
Over the past six years, average employment for Alaska commercial fishermen dropped slightly, but gross earnings were up — and that is a better measure of industry health.
That’s the conclusion of the state Labor Department’s November Economic Trends edition, which provides a great snapshot of fishing jobs and earnings in seven Alaska regions: Aleutians and Pribilof Islands, Bristol Bay, Kodiak, Northern, Southcentral, Southeast and the Yukon Delta. The analysis also updates information last gathered in 2002.