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At its worst in May of 2020, Sitka’s employment was down by about 25-percent.
“Sitka was hit harder than most of the rest of the state,” said Calvin. “Down 676 jobs (25-percent). In the meantime the statewide decline was about nine percent, and Juneau was down 13-percent.”
Virtually all seasonal tourism jobs vanished, along with most visitors and not just cruise passengers. In April of 2019 somewhere around 5,000 people arrived at Sitka’s airport; that same month a year later saw only 300 “enplanements.”
Every other sector of Sitka’s economy also took hits: hotels, restaurants, construction, retail, seafood, and government all were down.
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Logan and Bethany Branstiter co-captain the F/V B-Team in Alaska s Nushagak Bay, drift gillnetting sockeye salmon in Bristol Bay. Crew Shots photo
When covid hit Alaska, some of the changes to the seafood industry were immediate for those in the throes of seasons that were underway. Cod and other winter-spring fisheries suffered immediate blows to product flow while others like the salmon industry had time to construct industry protocols before the onslaught of fish returned to the nearshore waters.
While the pandemic disrupted the harvest and processing sectors of the fishing industry, the ripples it sent to consumers can’t hurt seafood in the long run.
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