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This week Alaska Senator Mark Begich introduced a bill that seeks to stem the tide of mislabeled seafood in the American marketplace. He says such actions hurts Alaska fishermen and cheats consumers.
He said his bill gives government agencies, such as NOAA Fisheries and the FDA better tools to deal with the huge pirate fishing industry.
Begich says Alaska has the right procedures in place to assure consumers that they are getting what they paid for, but he wants to shut down pirates passing off farmed salmon and Russian crab as being from Alaska.
Begich’s bill is modeled after legislation Rep. Ed Markey of Massachusetts introduced last week in the House of Representatives.
Begich said he is also working on a national seafood marketing plan, and hopes to introduce that legislation soon.
During his conversation this week with KMXT, Senator Begich also talked about weather satellite coverage for Alaska, which may be reduced, as well as revamped foreign summer worker legislation for Alaska canneries. We'll have those stories in coming days.
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It’s been just over a week since the House Finance Committee released a $9.7 billion operating budget for Alaska, and Kodiak’s Representative Alan Austerman said the budget should hit the House Floor sometime this week. Austerman is the co-chairman of the finance committee and said the proposed budget, which includes cuts in almost every department, will see some changes before it is finalized.
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Alaskans are making a strong presence at the annual Boston Seafood Show going on this week. Stopping by to check in with them for a second year is Alaska’s junior senator, Mark Begich. He took a few minutes yesterday to also check in with KMXT, live from the convention floor.
As of lunchtime Monday, Begich had yet to run across Aqua Bounty at the convention. They are the company which hopes to bring genetically engineered farmed salmon to American markets.
He noted that last week the supermarket chain Whole Foods announced it will require all genetically engineered, or “G-E,” foods to carry a label identifying it as such. Currently, the Food and Drug Administration does not require such labeling, and if Aqua Bounty’s salmon is approved, it will be the first meat product allowed to be sold to the public.
We’ll have more from our call with Senator Begich at the Boston Seafood Show in coming days, including an update on his program for foreign seafood workers to replace the defunct J-1 Visa program.
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On Thursday the Kodiak Island Borough Assembly unanimously passed a resolution expressing support for renaming the state airport to be called the Benny Benson Kodiak State Airport. In addition to designing the Alaska Flag, Benny Benson spent much of his life in the aviation industry in Kodiak. Benson died in 1972 and 2013 marks the 100th anniversary of his birth. The idea to change the airport’s name originally came from Jay Barrett.
Barrett is also the news director at KMXT.
Because the airport is state-owned, the name change must be approved by the Alaska Legislature. With the assembly’s support, the matter will now head down to Juneau where Kodiak’s delegation will try to have it approved before the legislative session ends in April. Senator Gary Stevens is already proposing to change the name of the Akhiok airport, and renaming the Kodiak airport may be added to that bill.
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Several items that may change the way you subsistence hunt or trap here in Kodiak will be on the agenda for the Kodiak/Aleutians Subsistence Regional Advisory Council meeting in two weeks. In addition, other issues related to subsistence in the region will be discussed.
The meeting starts at 8:30 a.m. on March 26th and 27th, at the Kodiak Inn. Folks who want to listen from afar can teleconference in.
We’ve got details on how to do that, as well as a link to the agenda and reports below.
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To teleconference in, dial 1-866-916-7020, the passcode is 37311548.
The agenda and other meeting materials are available at http://alaska.fws.gov/asm/racdetail.cfml?rac=03
More information is available from the Office of Subsistence Management at (800) 478-1456 or (907) 786-3888 or by e-mail,
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Federal Subsistence Management Program: http://alaska.fws.gov/asm/home.html
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