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In January, around 40 percent of employees at Trident Seafoods' Akutan facility tested positive for COVID-19, followed by cases on its catcher-processor vessel Kodiak Enterprise, at the company's Tacoma port. Some 7,300 Alaska residents account for the 26,000 seafood processing workforce in the state, according to data from the McDowell Group (now McKinley). Chris Barrows, president of Pacific Seafood Processors Association (PSPA), noted while the industry is thankful for the new inclusionary measure, the biggest constraint still is the lack of federal vaccine supply. Dunleavy's office note...

By DAVE KIFFER - With future ferry service up in the air and the price of both barge shipping and air travel on the rise, you could certainly forgive Ketchikan residents for wistfully wondering how life would be different in Southern Southeast if a road connected Ketchikan to the rest of the continent. To be sure, even if there was a road it would be at least a 1,500-mile trip to drive from Ketchikan to Seattle but that's the not the point. You could do it, even if it took several days. It was during the expansion of the canned salmon industry in the 1920s and early 1930s, that the federal g...

Nonprofit aims to connect marine businesses, investors January 29th |   New ocean-related jobs, investments and opportunities will be seeded by an ambitious Blue Pipeline Venture Studio that connects marine business entrepreneurs with the technology, contacts and finances they need to grow. "The state's blue economy includes anything that takes place on the water, most prominently the seafood industry, along with marine recreation, maritime research, waterborne transportation and much more," said Garrett Evridge, a well-known fisheries economist previously with the former McDowell Grou...

Wed, 01/27/2021 - 9:01am New ocean-related jobs, investments and opportunities will be seeded by an ambitious Blue Pipeline Venture Studio that connects marine business entrepreneurs with the technology, contacts and finances they need to grow. “The state’s blue economy includes anything that takes place on the water, most prominently the seafood industry, along with marine recreation, maritime research, waterborne transportation and much more,” said Garrett Evridge, a well-known fisheries economist previously with the McDowell Group and new research director for the Venture Studio. “...

Print article Anchorage businesses say getting COVID-19 under control is a top priority as the city struggles to recover from the pandemic, and they list Anchorage’s oft-criticized regulations as a lesser impediment to business growth, according to a survey released Wednesday by the Anchorage Economic Development Corp. The coronavirus pandemic loomed large over the annual survey and economic forecast, prepared for the development corporation by the McKinley Research Group, formerly the McDowell Group. The reports predict job growth as the city moves into the recovery phase, and few busine...