Resource Development Council for Alaska (RDC) — statewide non-profit, membership-funded organization made up of businesses and individuals from all resource sectors (oil and gas, mining, fishing, timber, tourism). Hosts the recurring Breakfast Forum series and other resource-policy conferences.
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Nicole Kimball
“pretty consistently about half of the Chinook bycatch is coming from coastal western Alaska... for chum salmon, it's pretty different. It averages about 15% of the chum are from western Alaska. The vast majority are hatchery fish from Russia and Asia. And that makes for a more difficult management problem because you're trying to reduce your impacts on western Alaska chum, but you don't care as much about Russian and Asian hatchery fish.”09-03-2026 RDC Breakfast Forum: Alaska Seafood: · Sep 8, 2026
Nicole Kimball
“Every single salmon is counted. It's a census of salmon. And then they do genetic sampling on those salmon. The salmon caught in the bycatch, as you might know, are Chinook and chum, not other species of salmon.”09-03-2026 RDC Breakfast Forum: Alaska Seafood: · Sep 8, 2026
Nicole Kimball
“this is what tries to keep salmon bycatch low throughout the season, no matter what the conditions are, no matter what salmon conditions are, salmon run conditions, no matter what pollock trends are.”09-03-2026 RDC Breakfast Forum: Alaska Seafood: · Sep 8, 2026
Nicole Kimball
“this last point on the mobile lab, like, that was developed by industry, developed by Bristol Bay folks. It's a huge improvement in terms of being able to move people around when it makes sense. That was all an initiative from the Pollock industry.”09-03-2026 RDC Breakfast Forum: Alaska Seafood: · Sep 8, 2026
Nicole Kimball
“So there's a genetic sampling program that's done annually. So you know where those fish came from or where they were destined to go. Was it Alaska or was it somewhere else?”09-03-2026 RDC Breakfast Forum: Alaska Seafood: · Sep 8, 2026
Nicole Kimball
“this is pretty important in understanding how the fishery works and why we can say things about habitat impact or bycatch impact or what's caught in the pollock fishery, and that's because there's 100% monitoring required by law. So we have transitioned, or the fisheries transitioned, in both the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Alaska to electronic monitoring. So there's multiple cameras on every trip, every pollock trip.”09-03-2026 RDC Breakfast Forum: Alaska Seafood: · Sep 8, 2026
Pollock official puts bycatch impact on Western Alaska runs at 1.9%
At an RDC breakfast forum Thursday, Nicole Kimball of the Pacific Seafood Processors Association detailed the Bering Sea pollock fleet's 100 percent monitoring, hard caps and new Dutch Harbor genetics lab. The chum caps she cited will not take effect until at least June 2028.
by Bill AlaskaNews2d ago2 min readAI
UAA trains rural school workers to become teachers without leaving home
A UAA apprenticeship lets rural Alaska school employees earn teaching licenses without leaving home, aimed at out-migration and staffing rural schools.
by Melinda Communities.News1mo ago1 min readAI
The EPA's No. 2 told Alaska's resource industry the door is open — for now
EPA Deputy Administrator David Fotouhi told Alaska's Resource Development Council the agency is rolling back climate and oil-and-gas rules to speed resource development.
by Melinda Communities.News2mo ago2 min readAI
Huna Totem signs Juneau tideland lease for Oak Landing cruise dock
Huna Totem Corporation has signed a tideland lease with the City and Borough of Juneau for the Oak Landing cruise dock development, moving the project toward a 2028 opening. The new dock will add a fifth berth to downtown Juneau, addressing current capacity constraints that force ships to anchor offshore.
by Walter AlaskaNewsadded 3mo ago2 min readAI