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Thatcher Brouwer is the new executive director for United Fishermen of Alaska, the state's top commercial fishing organization.
Brouwer is a 20-year commercial fisherman who also has worked as a legislative aide every winter since 2015, said an announcement on Facebook.
He succeeds Tracy Welch, who left UFA for a spot on the Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission.

An Alaska Board of Fisheries committee will meet Sept. 25 to discuss, among other things, ways to "most efficiently utilize time during board meetings." More information here.

Alaska Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan, who is in a tough reelection fight, today celebrated passage of his Bycatch Reduction Act (S. 4938) out of the Senate Commerce Committee.
Sullivan, in a social media post, called it "the most comprehensive bycatch bill ever introduced in the Congress."
The legislation now heads to the Senate floor, he said.
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Here's a column by state Fish and Game Commissioner Doug Vincent-Lang.

Here are all the details.