Seafood groups pick up $5.9M tab for hatchery salmon research

Workers with the Prince William Sound Aquaculture Corp. are seen in this courtesy photo. The Pacific Seafood Processors Association and a Southeast hatchery are picking up the tab on a stalled hatchery salmon research project that began in 2012 with a commitment to fund $850,000 per year for the next seven years, or a total of $5.9 million.