0:16
Jeff Woods
55:56 - 56:13
"Sitka currently has a fish box tax where they levy $10 a box for seafood leaving the Sitka Borough. We have a much larger natural resource extraction footprint than Sitka does, I would wager to say."
“Sitka currently has a fish box tax where they levy $10 a box for seafood leaving the Sitka Borough. We have a much larger natural resource extraction footprint than Sitka does, I would wager to say.”
- Speaker
- Jeff Woods
- Timestamp
- 55:56 – 56:13
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Kodiak
- Captured at
- June 25, 2026
From the transcript
Sitka currently has a fish box tax where they levy $10 a box for seafood leaving the Sitka Borough. We have a much larger natural resource extraction footprint than Sitka does, I would wager to say. I pulled— I got a hold of some information in there. I don't know how much of it made it actually into the packet.
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