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Feds to Allow Additional Foreign Workers in Alaska Commercial Fisheries
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Feds to Allow Additional Foreign Workers in Alaska Commercial Fisheries

Federal officials on March 31 announced that an additional 35,000 visas are being made available for foreign workers willing to fill nonagricultural jobs in the second half of fiscal year 2022. The expected influx of workers is expected to help temporarily fill many jobs at Pacific Northwest seafood processing companies. The announcement was hailed by Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, and Chris Barrows, president of the Pacific Seafood Processors Association in Seattle, as a relief for industry efforts to fill hundreds of onshore and at-sea jobs, particularly in the groundfish sector. Murkowski praised officials in the departments of Homeland Security and Labor for allowing the additional workers. “With the tourism and fishing season right around the corner, and the economic fallout we h...