 December 19, 2003
The matching grants were available to three categories of applicants. In the "major" category, the state is providing $7.4 million for projects to move large volumes of salmon, particularly pink salmon. In the "mini" category, the state will seek to provide $1.3 million. In the "micro" category, the state is proposing approximately $260,000 in projects funded. Grants were open to Alaska businesses with a fisheries business license. Businesses without the fisheries business license could apply as a co-applicant with businesses holding the appropriate license. Match requirements ranging from 25 percent to 50 percent based on the applicant category. The State of Alaska received more than 115 grants requesting in excess of $20 million. Projects receiving funding ranged from under $3,000 for support of fishermen marketing activities to over $1 million for a pink salmon burger promotion. All awards are preliminary and subject to negotiation. Several applications remain under consideration by the Department.
American Seafoods (Bumble Bee) Bumble Bee Canned Salmon Label & Packaging Update $37,500 Icicle Seafoods Honey Boy and Black Top brand marketing $765,000 Icicle Seafoods Ship Ahoy brand marketing $210,000 Leader Creek Fisheries Western Alaska Sockeye Marketing Plan $520,000 NorQuest Seafoods Alaska-Made Specialty Products for Japan $196,500 NorQuest Seafoods Alaskan Salmon Salad Sampling Program $181,000 NorQuest Seafoods Launch National Distribution Campaign Shelf-Stable Smoked Salmon Pouch $779,000 NorQuest Seafoods Live-Processed Alaska Salmon Products $37,250 NorQuest Seafoods Marinated Alaska Salmon Portions $271,800 NorQuest Seafoods Opening New Frontiers for Alaska Wild Salmon in the Growing East Coast Market $356,250 Ocean Beauty Canned Pink $894,700 Ocean Beauty Pillar Rock Pouch $1,059,975 Ocean Beauty Smoked Salmon $402,900 Ocean Beauty Sockeye Salmon Portions $173,500 Peter Pan Peter Pan Canned Salmon Market Expansion $55,000 Peter Pan Tall Pink Promotion under "Double Q" Brand $307,500 Trident Seafoods Alaskan Salmon Burger Costco Promotional Program $1,068,000 Trident Seafoods Canned Salmon Label Revision $28,625 Trident Seafoods Canned Salmon Retail Product Sampling $77,500 Total Major Projects = $7,422,000 Arctic Paws, LLC 2004 Tradeshow Marketing Plan $50,000 Bering Sea Fishermen's Association Kotzebue Sound Arctic Salmon Marketing Program $50,000 Deep Creek Custom Packing, Inc. DCCP Marketing for Revitalization $66,500 Desire Fish Co. Web site design, travel, equipment purchase $15,000 Icy Strait Seafoods Marketing flavored ikura $15,000 Indian Valley Meats Alaska Salmon Jerky Made from Pink and Chum Salmon $50,000 Leader Creek Fisheries (Chulyen Corporation) North Americans Like Alaskan Sockeye Too! $17,650 Northern Keta Caviar Salmon Caviar Marketing to the European Union with Emphasis on the Organic Health Food Market $98,868 Salamatof Seafoods (Alaska Salmon Purchasers Inc.) Packaging and Market Development Project $30,000 Sea Products, LLC Marketing smoked salmon sausage $100,000 Seafood Producers Coop/ E.C. Phillips and Son/ Honnah Cold Storage/ Triad Fisheries Ltd. (Alaska Troll Salmon Processors Assoc.) Marketing Wild Alaska Hook & Line-Caught Salmon in Japan $186,000 Signature Seafoods Chum and Pink Salmon Market Expansion $100,000 Signature Seafoods (TKO Fisheries Ltd.) (WildCatch) WildCatch Retail $154,000 Snug Harbor Seafoods Snug Harbor Branded Salmon Project $19,089 Sockeye Alaska Expanding High-Value Markets for Wild Alaska Salmon $25,000 Trappers Creek Smoking Co. Inc. Taste Alaska's Best Wild Alaska Salmon Jerky $175,000 Wrangell Seafoods Inc. Marketing Wrangell fresh, frozen & canned salmon $125,000 Total Mini Projects = $1,277,107
Alaska Wild Salmon Company Marketing contract for fresh fillets, smoked coho & pet treats $8,000 Alaska Wildsides Label design, web page, promotional tours $18,800 American Surf N' Turf Alaska Fish Hugger $17,625 Cape Cleare Fishery Cape Cleare Proposal $19,000 Dejon Delights, Ltd. Dejon Delights Rhode Island Marketing $7,125 Elfish Company Alaska Salmon: Wild by Nature $14,500 Five Girls Fish Co. Alaskan Fisherman's Direct Sales $16,500 Gil Fish Co. Travel to small retail markets and test shipments $4,700 Horst Seafood Horst Seafood Marketing Plan: web site and travel $10,000 Interior Alaska Fish Processors, Inc. Yukon River Salmon Marketing $16,150 Kodiak Island Smokehouse Kodiak Island Smokehouse Wild Alaska Salmon Marketing Plan $2,475 Kodiak Wild Fish Company Marketing Ready to Eat Pink Salmon $25,000 Lofoten Fish Company Marketing design, website travel for tourists and restaurants $6,841 Maxcy Fishing Company/Wild Salmon Inc. (Wild By Nature LLC) Copper River Salmon, Window to Alaska's Treasures $20,000 Minnesota Connection Marketing Kodiak coho and pink salmon $22,000 Pacific Pleasures Pacific Pleasures Market Up Grades $7,800 Smoky Bay Fisheries Vacuum-packed sockeye marketing $13,000 Troller Point Fisheries Go Wild $16,000 Wind and Tide, Inc. Rose Fisheries Product Promotion $18,050 Total Micro Projects = $263,566
Note: *All preliminary awards
are subject to negotiation between the State and applicant.
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