The Alaska Seafood Industry Task Force is made up of eight state lawmakers, and was formed this spring to address a downturn in the state's commercial fishing industry. At the group's fourth meeting on December 10, Petersburg's longtime Harbormaster Glorianne Wollen told lawmakers that Alaska's harbors need more money for maintenance.
Afterward, she told KFSK that a lot of the complications in funding come from a shift in harbor ownership over the years.
"From the beginning of statehood, the state owned our municipal harbors, but in 1996 the state decided to get out of the harbor business," sh...
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