Age demographics of salmon permit holders in the Alaskan Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission, 1976-2016

The Commercial Fisheries Entry Commision (CFEC) is an independent, autonomous agency of the State of Alaska which regulates entry into Alaska's commercial fisheries. The CFEC is responsible for leasing all commercial fishing permits including permits for limited-entry fisheries. Limited-entry fisheries include all state salmon fisheries, most herring fisheries, and various other fisheries. This dataset includes age demographics, broken out into decades, of all Alaska resident permanent salmon permit holders between 1975 and 2016. The source of this permit information is permit application and renewal forms collected by CFEC. This dataset tabulates individuals by community and unduplicated by person, meaning that if an individual holds more than one permit, they are only represented once. Also included in this dataset is a script which leverages census designated place data to assign latitude and longitude values to each community.