International Alaska & British Columbia Native Fisheries Alliance

Native Fisheries Alliance
International Alaska and British Columbia Native Fisheries Alliance is in process of forming an alliance for purposes of going direct marketing and gain better prices for their seafood harvest. Currently the alliance has put together a business plan targeting Prince of Wales Island Alaska with Haida and Tlingit Villages to re-activate a seafood processing plant and for other villages custom pack salmon harvest meaning they will process our salmon harvest.

For northern British Columbia work with Haida Nation assisting them in purchasing a float seafood processing plant to be operational for this coming summer salmon season. The other area of participation is with Port Alberni, it is known as “The Salmon Capital of the World.” It has an abundance of sockeye and King Salmon.

Importance of Salmon for Alaska

If Alaska were a nation, it would place 9th among seafood producing countries. The groundfish fishery in the waters off Alaska is among the largest fisheries in the world. Alaska landings of traditional global groundfish species groups (including cod, Pollock, hake, and haddock) and flatfish accounted for about one-fifth of the world harvest of these species groups in 2006.
In the same year, around 42 percent of the world capture production of species in the “salmon, trout, smelt” group occurred in Alaska waters. For Southeast Alaska 442 million pounds was produced or over nearly half of all seafood production is from the Southeast Alaska Region.
Alaska is the top producer of wild, high-value salmon, producing nearly 80 percent of the world supply of wild king, sockeye and Coho.

Importance of Alaska Seafood to Alaska

$1.55 billion in 2007. The additional value added by Alaska’s seafood processing sector brought the total wholesale value of Alaska’s commercial seafood industry to over $3.6 billion in 2007.
It is estimated that the seafood industry’s $3.6 billion in wholesale value generated an additional $2.2 billion in indirect and induced economic output for a total contribution of $5.8 billion to Alaska’s economic output. The seafood industry also generated a total of 78,519 direct, indirect The total estimated ex-vessel value of Alaska’s commercial harvest was and induced jobs and $1.75 billion in direct, indirect and induced payments to labor and income.
While data for 2007 are not available it is estimated that in 2006, the wholesale value generated by the seafood industry represented over 9.4 percent of the $36.4 billion basic sector activity in Alaska’s economy. The basic sector, because it brings money into the state from outside, is the driving force behind all economic activity in the state.
The seafood industry ranks third in importance behind the North Slope oil and gas industry and federal government in terms of generating basic economic activity in Alaska. (The Seafood Industry in Alaska’s Economy, http://www.marineconservationalliance.org/docs/SIAE_Jan2009_ES.pdf

Seeking Working Capital

International Alaska and British Columbia Native Fisheries Alliance is seeking $25 Million Dollars as a bridge loan collateralizing the seafood harvest. It would be for Prince of Wales – 1. Hydaburg, Alaska re-activating its seafood processing plant; 2. Craig or Klawock for custom packing salmon harvest; 3. Buying and Processing Salmon, Port Alberni and 4. Haida Nation purchase of floating seafood processing plant and for staff and workers.

Contact:
Maggie Dodd White Eagle at: mdwhiteeagle@yahoo.com
Terrance H Booth Sr. at: nntd01@gmail.com

International Alaska and British Columbia Native Fisheries Alliance