Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association
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The Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association, SSRAA- is a corporation whose mission is “to enhance and rehabilitate salmon production in southern Southeast Alaska to the optimum social and economic benefit of salmon users”.
SE Alaska commercial fishermen were the initial funding source for this user-pays activity. Regional commercial salmon fishermen voted to annually tax themselves 3% of the ex-vessel value of their harvest to support the organization. The willingness of fishermen to tax themselves served as long-term collateral for the capital and operational loans necessary to build hatchery facilities and begin operations. Though fishermen continue to tax themselves, SSRAA’s primary funding comes from the “cost recovery” harvest of some of the fish produced by SSRAA.
The current Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association program includes hatcheries at: Whitman Lake on the Ketchikan road system; Neets Bay, a remote site in Behm Canal; Burnett Inlet, a remote site in NW Clarence Straits; and, Crystal Lake on the Petersburg road system. Fish from these hatcheries are released at the hatchery sites as well as a number of remote rearing sites including: Nakat Inlet, Kendrick Bay, Anita Bay, Bakewell Lake, McDonald Lake and Neck Lake.
Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association Boats Underway
