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NOAA Fisheries: Alaska’s Seafood Industry Bore a $1.8 Billion Loss in 2022-23
For anyone curious about what all the disaster declarations, price drops, rising costs, market shifts, and labor shortages have added up to over the past two years, now we can — it’s $1.8 billion.
NOAA Fisheries has done the heavy lifting of summing up the financial impacts of consumer behavior changes, shifts in global markets, climate change, and other factors in its 67-page economic report called Alaska Seafood Snapshot, released yesterday.
In the three-year period 2021-2023, the report says that the Alaska fishing …