May 9, 2022 — The U.S. Commerce Department is allocating $131.9 million to Alaska for fisheries disasters that occurred between 2018 and 2021, according to Alaska’s U.S. senators.
States may request federal assistance for fisheries after hurricanes, oil spills and other types of natural and manmade disasters that harm a commercial fishery.
The funding for Alaska is for a series of fisheries disasters, including for the Yukon River salmon fishery the last two years.
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