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A state government shutdown could also shutter Alaska fisheries
Posted by Sage Smiley | Jun 23, 2021
A fishing boat passes Wrangell’s City Park. (Sage Smiley / KSTK)
If Alaska state leaders can’t resolve an impasse over the budget, large swaths of state government will shut down in July. That could include Alaska’s lucrative summer salmon fisheries, which is causing concern across coastal communities.
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Southeast Alaska’s summer salmon troll fishery opens July 1. That’s the same day nearly 15,000 state workers could be out of work. Among those is Grant Hagerman, a state fisheries biologist managing the fishery from Sitka.