Changes in the distribution of Alaska's Commercial Fisheries Entry Permits

Marcus Gho and Craig Farrington analyzed changes in the distribution of Alaska’s permanent permit holders in Alaska's limited entry fisheries in their report "Changes in the Distribution of Alaska's Commercial Fisheries Entry Permits, 1975 – 2015" (M. Gho And C. Farrington. 2016. CFEC Report 16-3N, Changes in the Distribution of Alaska's Commercial Fisheries Entry Permits, 1975 – 2015). Drafters of the Limited Entry Act in Alaska were concerned that permits would not be easily accessible for younger Alaskans, and this report was produced so that concerned parties can be properly informed. These data are from 1975-2015 and represent the 65 commercial fisheries that were issued permanent limited entry permits: 26 salmon fisheries, 19 herring fisheries, 9 crab fisheries, 5 sablefish fisheries, 3 shrimp fisheries, and 3 dive fisheries(sea urchin, sea cucumber, geoduck). The report includes information on residential types of permit transfers, distribution of permit holders, and the age of permit holders and recipients. Here, we include 5 data tables from chapter four and two tables from chapter three of the report that are made publicly available on the Commercial Fishery Entry Commission webpage here: https://www.cfec.state.ak.us/RESEARCH/16-3N/16-3N.htm. Data tables were reformatted so that separate tables with titles were merged into a single table, with an added column containing the information in the title. Otherwise the tables remain unchanged. These data tables include contain information pertaining to the age differences between permit transferors and recipients by fishery, residential type of these transferors and recipients, age distribution of residential situation, and distribution of residential types of permit holders. The attached documents are Marcus Gho's and Craig Farrington's "Changes in the Distribution of Alaska's Commercial Fisheries Entry Permits" research paper and their "Executive Summary" of their findings, respectively.