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Total state fisheries tax collected in Alaska

$264,795
as of June 2025 · annual · dive fishery management assessment
▼ 40.4% vs prior · ▼ 40.4% vs a year earlier

Series fish_tax_total.ak.dive_fishery · full series: CSV JSON · other versions of this measure:

History since 2000

146k315k484k653k823k200020052010201520202025

Recent values

DateTotal state fisheries tax collected
2025-06-30$264,795
2024-06-30$444,256
2023-06-30$284,732
2022-06-30$550,137
2021-06-30$296,993
2020-06-30$457,618
2019-06-30$751,454
2018-06-30$534,771
2017-06-30$551,492
2016-06-30$460,822
2015-06-30$472,791
2014-06-30$539,638
2013-06-30$772,526
2012-06-30$682,534
2011-06-30$603,219
2010-06-30$523,024
2009-06-30$391,183
2008-06-30$373,120
2007-06-30$426,006
2006-06-30$273,521
2005-06-30$411,267
2004-06-30$253,503
2003-06-30$204,738
2002-06-30$192,110

Total state fisheries tax collected elsewhere

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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