Greetings from Juneau,

Please find below the House Special Committee on Fisheries schedule. There will be no meetings the weeks of March 6th-10th, and March 13th-17th, 2006.

Fisheries Committee Schedule

Unless Otherwise Noted, All Meetings Will be Held in Room 124 of the Capitol
8:30 A.M.-10:00 A.M.

No Meetings will be Scheduled for the weeks of:
March 6th-10th, 2006
March 13th-17th, 2006

Any legislation that has been forwarded to the committee will be scheduled after March 20th, 2006.

Seafood Processing & Inspection Regulations

Our office spoke with the Tim Berry, the legislative liaison for DEC, this afternoon. Mr. Berry indicated that the department would be discussing the proposed regulation changes for "Seafood Processing & Inspection" further with fishermen and impacted stakeholders. The proposed regulation changes can be viewed at the address below

http://www.dec.state.ak.us/
regulations/index.htm

Fisheries Economic Development Grants

Please see the the link below for information about 2006 Fisheries Economic Development Grants. The link below is the application guide. Applications are due May 5, 2006.

http://www.dced.state.ak.us/oed/
seafood/revitalization/
2006GrantGuide.pdf

Emergency Regulations

On February 24, 2006, the Board of Fisheries adopted, as an emergency regulation, changes in Title 5 of the Alaska Administrative Code dealing with chapter 28, Groundfish Fishery. You can find the more information at the link below.

http://www.akrepublicans.org/ledoux/
24/pdfs/ledo2006030202i.pdf

I will be out of the office and reachable by email only for the week of March 6th-10th.

Comfish

Gabrielle and I look forward to seeing you at Comfish in Kodiak March 16th-18th.

Best regards, Kim

Kimberly Wallace
Legislative & Fisheries Committee Aide
Representative Gabrielle LeDoux
State Capitol
District 36
Juneau, AK 99801-1121
Phone: 907.465.2487
Fax: 907.465.4956

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