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This bill modifies the duties of the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI) and updates the legal definition of seafood. Specifically, the bill expands ASMI's responsibilities by adding language about seafood harvesting, and broadens the definition of seafood to explicitly include mariculture products (which are defined by referencing the existing legal definition of "aquatic farm product"). The bill updates ASMI's duties to include developing market-oriented quality specifications, conducting market research, and promoting seafood products, with a specific addition allowing the board to consider seafood "from the moment of capture or harvest to final distribution." The definition of seafood is expanded to more comprehensively include various marine products like finfish, shellfish, fish by-products, and now explicitly mariculture products, listing specific examples such as salmon, halibut, herring, flounder, crab, clam, cod, shrimp, and pollock. The bill also maintains ASMI's existing requirement to submit an annual report to the governor and to develop marketing programs using quality and premium seals.

Agriculture and Natural Resources, Budget and Finance

Rules (Senate)

https://www.akleg.gov/basis/Bill/Detail/34?Root=SB131