Mike Dunleavy has appointed ally Mike Porcaro, a longtime GOP consultant and talk radio host, to the Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission.
Fishing boats are lines up on Oct. 3, 2022, at a dock at Kodiak’s St. Paul Harbor.
Porcaro will work remotely from his home in Anchorage, continue hosting his daily radio program from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. and run his advertising agency outside work hours, he said. “All I’m doing is trying to answer a call of service, and I’m going to do the best job I can do,” Porcaro said in an interview Thursday. He added: “Judge me on my performance.”
Kodiak Republican Rep. Louise Stutes, a member of the House Fisheries Committee who’s tracked CFEC’s work, said she’d have to look into the governor’s decision to name Porcaro to the agency. The commission’s original focus was deciding which fisheries to limit and deciding which commercial fishermen would get the valuable permits, based on their past history in the industry. But that work was largely finished by 2010: Commissioners’ decisions on individual permits, known as adjudications, dropped from dozens a year to just two or three.
While the commission also has an executive director who handles administrative work, like human resources, CFEC commissioners still have several key duties, said Haight. Haight, a former executive director of the Alaska Board of Fisheries, has been in his post since last year.
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