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Alaska commercial fishermen's gross earnings up

November 07, 2011
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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,  South central, Southeast and the Yukon Delta.  The analysis also updates information last gathered in 2002.  

It is hardly an exact science.  Because fishermen are self-employed and fall outside the various wage withholding and unemployment insurance laws, the Department uses surveys and industry research to estimate harvesting employment.  Most of the information comes from the state’s Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission, which provides detailed data on gross estimated earnings, pounds caught and permits.

Some highlights:  There were 6,915 Alaska fishermen working each month on average in 2010, a decline of 2.4 percent from the previous year, and down 7.6 percent from 2005. 

Most of the fishing jobs were for salmon (50.2%); followed by halibut (20.1%),  groundfish (8.1%), sablefish (7.4%), crab (5.4%), herring (4.9 %), and miscellaneous shellfish (3.9%).

Southeast Alaska had the largest harvesting work force in 2010; it grew by 146 to 9,182 fishermen.  The region ranked third in gross earnings at $208 million, an all time high.

The South central region ranked second for fishing jobs with 2,200 active permit holders, and second for gross earnings. Fishermen there set a record in earnings last year at nearly $265 million.

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