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Alaska Seafood: Wild, Natural & Sustainable
The Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI) is Alaska's official seafood marketing arm; it maximizes the economic value of the Alaska seafood resource by:
Developing and creating markets
Building and protecting the Alaska Seafood brand
Working directly with the Alaska seafood industry
What’s New
Upcoming Meetings:
Upcoming Events:
Due to circumstances surrounding COVID-19, all in-person ASMI events have been tentatively cancelled or postponed until further notice. ASMI committee and board meetings will take place via teleconference.
Announcements:
- ASMI Statement: Global Food Safety Experts Confirm, No Evidence COVID-19 is Transmitted through Food
- 2021-0824 Request For Proposal Website Design & Development
- ASMI Reminds Alaskans, Consumers to CHOOSE ALASKA with New Campaign
- USDA Announces New Seafood Trade Relief Program For U.S. Fishermen
- Certified Seafood Collaborative Takes Ownership of RFM
- ASMI Launches Seafood Sunday Initiative in Time for National Seafood Month
- Alaska’s Seafood Industry – Facts about Food Safety and COVID-19
Employment Opportunities:
Publications:
- Reports: Covid-19 Impacts to Alaska Seafood Industry
- Report: Guangzhou Continues Importing Meat and Seafood
- Newsletter: ASMI September Update
- FY19 ASMI Annual Report
- Peru Grants Temporary Market Access for Fish and Seafood Products for Reprocessing
- The Economic Value of Alaska's Seafood Industry Report
- ASMI Russian Embargo White Paper
ASMI Around the World
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Location
311 N. Franklin Street Suite 200
Juneau, AK 99801-1147
Tel: (800) 478-2903
Tel: (907) 465-5560
info@alaskaseafood.org
ASMI staff are currently working remotely but readily available to connect with you by phone or email. Find the ASMI staff directory here.
ASMI’s Whitefish Committee is scheduled to meet via Zoom on Monday, October 26, 2020 beginning at 10 am PST. Click here for more information bit.ly/3kjPcup
In coordination with the digital event, eMise, and courtesy of the Mise conference, check out ASMI's newly developed recipes included in a digital cookbook.
The featured Alaska seafood recipes incorporate on-trend global flavors that resonate with consumers while meeting the need for delivery and takeout options. Check out the cookbook on ASMI's website here www.alaskaseafood.org/foodservice/recipes/
All Hands on Deck is a public event which brings together all programs of the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute to present and discuss current marketing efforts, strategies and challenges facing the industry with the ASMI Board of Directors and the ASMI species and operational committees.
Register today, and join us Tuesday, November 10 - Friday, November 13, 2020. www.facebook.com/events/821847008567151
Happy Alaska Day! There are so many ways to celebrate Alaska, but today, we’re raising our glass to our commercial fishing industry.
Thank you to the hard-working men and women who provide us with healthy, delicious, and sustainable food to millions of people worldwide.
ASMI Japan placed an advertisement in the catalog and online store for Bio Market, a retail group that specializes in organic and natural products. The company runs several stationary stores in addition to a home delivery service which people can utilize through their catalog and ecommerce site.
ASMI Board of Directors is scheduled to meet via Zoom on Thursday, October 15, 2020 beginning at 9am, AKST.
Click here for more information www.alaskaseafood.org/board-of-directors-meeting-october-15-2020-zoom/
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is currently taking public comment to split $50 million in federal coronavirus aid among commercial, sport and subsistence fishermen. Click here to submit a comment bit.ly/33M6v1L.
Click here to review the latest Section 12005 CARES Act Relief for Fisheries Participants Draft Spend Plan. aws.state.ak.us/OnlinePublicNotices/Notices/Attachment.aspx?id=124773
This month's National Fisherman Northern Lights column explains the message behind "Eat Seafood, America!". Guest author Andrea Albershiem, director of Communication for the Seafood Nutrition Partnership, says this message is an effort to help Americans stay healthy during Covid-19 as well as boosting the U.S. seafood economy.
Fishermen with a valid federal or state license or permit can apply for relief through their local USDA Service Center between Sept. 14, 2020 and Dec.14, 2020. Online applications as well as a list of applicable seafood species and local USDA Service Centers, available at farmers.gov/Seafood.
ASMI is working with McDowell Group, Inc. to understand the impacts of the pandemic to Alaska's seafood industry, products and markets.
McDowell Group has produced the first in a series of briefing papers intended to provide information on the depth and breadth of these impacts. This first paper, as well as an overview of the methodology and reporting structure of the study are available at www.alaskaseafood.org/covid-19-impact-reports/