Fisheries taxpayers in Alaska

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:

• Fisheries business tax — on processors, by the value of the raw fish they

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

• Fishery resource landing tax — on fish processed outside Alaska's

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

• Salmon enhancement tax, regional seafood development tax,

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

• Filed under economy, not fisheries. fisheries is a legal topic

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.

• These are fiscal years, not calendar years. FY2025 ran 1 July 2024 to

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

apfc_fund_value. A fishing season straddles two fiscal years.

• Parentheses mean two different things, depending on the row, and both

readings are provable from the publisher's own totals:

• On the distribution rows (General Fund, Shared with Municipalities,

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