Employment in the Alaska Fisheries

Since the late 1980s, much of the news about Alaska's fisheries has been negative. Gross earnings fell 63 percent from 1988 to 2002 and the number of active permit holders fell 35 percent over the same period. The good news is that fi sheries data from 2003 and 2004 - including the employment estimates that are the subject of this article - suggest that the tide may have changed.