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Fisheries tax penalties and interest in Alaska

$922,901
as of June 2025 · annual · fisheries business tax
▲ 363.2% vs prior · ▲ 363.2% vs a year earlier

Series fish_tax_penalties.ak.fisheries_business · full series: CSV JSON · other versions of this measure:

History since 2005

0283k566k850k1.1M200520092013201720212025

Recent values

DateFisheries tax penalties and interest
2025-06-30$922,901
2024-06-30$199,224
2023-06-30$535,434
2022-06-30$575,706
2021-06-30$760,206
2020-06-30$85,573
2019-06-30$453,537
2018-06-30$234,630
2017-06-30$1,048,784
2016-06-30$125,525
2015-06-30$491,989
2014-06-30$418,060
2013-06-30$566,989
2012-06-30$995,246
2011-06-30$157,442
2010-06-30$313,438
2009-06-30$311,942
2008-06-30$504,207
2007-06-30$169,178
2006-06-30$24,450
2005-06-30$153,357

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About this data

Every tax and assessment the State of Alaska levies on catching and processing

fish, by fiscal year ending 30 June, from FY1996 to FY2025:

take. The big one, and the one that is shared back with municipalities.

3-mile limit and first landed here. The factory-trawler tax; also shared.

seafood marketing assessment, common property fishery assessment and

dive fishery management assessment — industry self-assessments, voted on

by the fishermen who pay them, funding hatcheries, marketing and management.

The fisheries business and landing taxes are the fiscal link between a fishing

season and a coastal community's budget: roughly half of each is returned to

the borough or city where the fish were landed. FY2025 sent $16.2M and $4.5M

respectively back to municipalities.

Known issues & gotchas

literal but has no dashboard tab, and a topic without a tab leaves every

page of the dataset without a breadcrumb — the same reason bts_t100,

faa_opsnet and dcced_transport sit under economy. A Fisheries tab is

worth having once the community-level fisheries datasets land (CFEC

earnings, CDQ, the shared-tax-by-community table below), but adding a tab

is a dashboard change and belongs in its own briefs/features/ brief

rather than riding along with a connector.

30 June 2025 and is stored at 2025-06-30, the same convention as

apfc_fund_value. A fishing season straddles two fiscal years.

readings are provable from the publisher's own totals:

DCCED Municipal Allocation) parentheses are a display convention for

"paid out", used up to FY2017 and dropped from FY2018. Read as

magnitudes, the three sum to Total Tax in 30/30 landing-tax years and