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The virtual Bristol Bay Youth Leadership Forum is scheduled for March 23-25, 2021. Students in grades 9-12 from Southwest Region School District, Lake and Peninsula School District, Bristol Bay Borough School District and Dillingham City School District are invited to apply. Students attending the virtual forum will have the opportunity to participate in cultural activities, learn critical work-readiness and leadership skills, and take part in presentations and dialogues focused on community initiatives, current issues impacting Native communities, and college and vocational career opportunities. Student applications are due Feb. 26, and can be submitted online at bit.ly/virtualBBYLFapp. More information and a copy of the application can also be downloaded at www.utbb.org/calendar-of-events/2021/virtualbbylfapp and submitted by fax or email. ....
As this paper went to press, news had just broken of another massive outbreak in remote Alaska. Akutan, which lies near the tip of the Aleutian Islands some 760 miles from Anchorage, is home to the Trident Seafoods plant, which is just starting to process Bering Sea pollock. What started with just a handful of employees testing positive over the weekend has now ballooned to 135 workers testing positive nearly 50% of those tested. Other seafood processing plants have suffered a similar fate this winter Unisea Inc. in Unalaska had to halt operations after officials say a New Year s party in company housing resulted in some 55 employees testing positive. ....
Alaska fishermen report hard hit from dock prices January 21st |
The single biggest hit to fishermen from the COVID-19 virus is lower dock prices, according to Alaska and West Coast harvesters, and 98% said their businesses have been badly bashed by the pandemic. That s based on survey results compiled by Ocean Strategies, a public relations firm that focuses on fisheries that helped profile the Pacific region for a larger federal study. Nearly 400 fishermen responded to the short, confidential survey launched last November, said senior consultant Hannah Heimbuch of Kodiak. NOAA (the National Oceanic and Atmopheric Association) uses any information they collect on economics to report to Congress on how the industry is being impacted, the major trends they are seeing, and then that informs the decisions that Congress or other government agencies might make in response to those trends, she said. ....