AVCP Leadership Testifies at Alaska Board of Fisheries Alaska Peninsula/Aleutian Islands and Chignik Meeting
ANCHORAGE, AK — Vivian Korthuis, Chief Executive Officer of the Association of Village Council Presidents (AVCP), testified this morning at the Alaska Board of Fisheries, Alaska Peninsula/Aleutian Islands and Chignik meeting held at the William A. Egan Center in Anchorage. The week-long meeting, part of the Board’s 2025–26 cycle of regional fishery meetings, is focused on Alaska Peninsula / Aleutian Islands / Chignik finfish regulatory proposals.
AVCP’s participation underscored the organization’s continued commitment to sustainable fisheries management and to representing the interests of Southwest Alaska communities, commercial harvesters, subsistence fishers, and Alaska Native peoples. Board agenda items included a range of proposals affecting salmon and other finfish harvest strategies in the region…