AK Legislature Opens 1/17, Early Filing Includes 3 Fishing Bills Among Nearly 70 Filed on Monday
House Speaker Louise Stutes (R-Kodiak) introduced three bills on Monday addressing fishing issues among 57 other bills and five constitutional amendments, the first of perhaps two more batches of prefiled bills before the State Legislature opens January 17, 2023.
Stutes introduced HB18, allowing for more regional fishery development associations around the state to “...encourage the formation of qualified, regional fisheries development associations for the purpose of developing new fisheries....”
Alaska has two RFDAs, one in Bristol Bay and one in the Copper....
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