Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association

Programs: Salmon production: expenditures related to producing salmon to enhance local regional fisheries and rehabilitate regional stocks of salmon. This includes the operation of 7 salmon hatcheries, 6 significant remote rearing and release sites for fish produced in the hatcheries. The southeast alaska commercial salmon fleet harvesting salmon produced by ssraa in 2017 was comprised of approximately 400 drift gill netters, 300 purse seine vessels and 800 power trollers. Each of these fishermen is an independent small business; most of them employ crew in addition to the fisherman owning the vessel. The ex-vessel value (directly to the fishermen) of ssraa's 2017 production was an estimated $19. 2 million. The first wholesale value realized by local processors and passed to local communities is approximately twice that amount. Ssraa-produced fish are the primary driver for the sport charter business in ketchikan. The value of this activity was estimated at $3 million in 2008 and it is likely more than $5 million today. Ssraa-produced fish also provide a large portion of alaska resident sport harvest in southern southeast alaska.

ssraa harvest: expenditures related to the harvest of surplus adult salmon, often during the collection and control of brood stock; fish that were not captured in regional commercial, sport, personal use, and subsistence fisheries that return to the sites where they were released - primarily neets bay. This activity includes the sale of a portion of these fish to provide some of the funding required for ssraa's activities.

facility maintenance and repair: the upkeep and maintenance for remote hatchery sites and other hatchery operations. Preventive maintenance and repair stabilizes the program in order to insure its sustainability. These changes often include upgraded equipment that both makes the production of fish more efficient as well as increasing the survival of juvenile fish to adults - increasing the benefit to resource users.

other program services including research and planning - research returning salmon and plan for future enhancement programs.