Senator Kawasaki Introduces Legislation To Incentivize Early Retirement for Public Employees

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Senator Kawasaki Introduces Legislation To Incentivize Early Retirement for Public Employees

  JUNEAU – Wednesday, Senator Scott Kawasaki (D-Fairbanks) introduced SB 102 to implement a temporary, voluntary retirement incentive program to increase state savings by allowing public employees to retire early. Longer-serving public employees are usually higher paid in the state. In many cases, pensions paid to retired employees cost the state less money than their […]

Some Alaska Fishermen to Test New, Voluntary Electronic Monitoring Program

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Some Alaska Fishermen to Test New, Voluntary Electronic Monitoring Program

NOAA Fisheries is proposing to integrate electronic monitoring (EM) into the North Pacific Observer Program. An EM system uses cameras and associated sensors to passively record and monitor fishing activities-work traditionally accomplished by a human fisheries observer. Observers are trained biologists who collect scientific information while aboard commercial fishing vessels. This information contributes to the […]