Ms. Cassidy seems a bit starry-eyed herself. Another processor, Great Pacific Seafoods, filed for Chapter 7 last June. This follows a year when government declared eastside set-netting a "disaster" and spread $15 million in relief around.

ISER reported a year ago in this paper that the commercial fishing industry, as a whole, doesn't even pay for itself. It's one of the least taxed industry in Alaska, and the 3% landing tax doesn't even go into the General Fund--it goes to ASMI marketing. 

I say get rid of all these industry subsidies. 

Don't get me wrong; I love this industry, but it doesn't seem to be the thriving "net" contributor to Alaska's economy that Ms. Cassidy claims.