Alaska Seafood Harvesting Jobs Rise 4% in 2025, Ending Five Years of Losses

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Alaska's seafood harvesting workforce grew 4% in 2025, according to the state Department of Labor and Workforce Development. It is the first annual increase after five straight years of job losses. The gain averaged 216 jobs per month and was the largest in more than a decade.

The recovery is modest. The industry has lost about 2,300 jobs since 2019, and July employment, the annual peak, was about 17,400 in 2025, well below the roughly 24,000 of the mid-2010s...

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