00                   HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 28                                                                   
01 Relating to the socioeconomic impacts of salmon harvesting cooperatives.                                                
02 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
03       WHEREAS salmon harvesting cooperatives provide an opportunity to increase the                                   
04 efficiency of the Alaska salmon industry and improve the quality of Alaska salmon products;                             
05 and                                                                                                                     
06       WHEREAS salmon harvesting cooperatives create social and economic changes                                       
07 within fishing communities; and                                                                                         
08       WHEREAS the advantages and disadvantages flowing from salmon harvesting                                         
09 cooperatives are difficult to quantify and to distinguish from the effects of broader regional                          
10 and global trends affecting the Alaska salmon industry and the world market for Alaska                                  
11 salmon;                                                                                                                 
12       BE IT RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature respectfully requests the                                      
13 University of Alaska to ask the appropriate unit of the university to perform a socioeconomic                           
14 study of the effects of salmon harvesting cooperatives on commercial fishermen, processors,                             
15 Alaska fishing communities, and the State of Alaska; and be it                                                          
16       FURTHER RESOLVED that the study be presented to the Alaska State Legislature                                    

01 by November 1, 2004.                                                                                                    
02       COPIES of this resolution shall be sent to the Honorable Mark R. Hamilton,                                      
03 President, University of Alaska and to the Board of Regents of the University of Alaska.