...worried about maintaining healthy fish runs in Juneau's small creeks. Another rule, proposed by Pelican Mayor Patricia Phillips, would allow Southeast Alaska subsistence fishermen to use pink salmon as bait in sport or commercial fisheries...
...jumping in line ahead of previous owner Kake Tribal Corp. The city began foreclosure proceedings last May, said Mayor Patricia Phillips, following years of inaction at the plant and failure to pay property taxes. The plant was owned then by fishing...
...We've got water restored to the community, but it is not enough to run our hydroelectric turbines," said Mayor Patricia Phillips. The old wooden flume that carried city water also carried the water that produced electricity for Pelican, but...
...bars will once again welcome Southeast commercial fishermen. "All in all, it's a good thing," Pelican Mayor Patricia Phillips said ebulliently on Tuesday. Kake Tribal Corp. owns the seafood plant and signed papers a couple of weeks ago leasing...
...plant were compounded last week when 10 inches of rain fell, overflowing the flume and weakening the trestle, said Patricia Phillips, Pelican's mayor. Collapse of the flume left the 113-population city without water, and forced a switch to...
...catch limits would have "disastrous" effects on the economics of rural fishing communities in Southeast, said Patricia Phillips, based out of Pelican. Phillips has fished halibut for 25 years with her husband James. Phillips said the commission...
...closed for two years. Bahrt has failed to make payments on the plant, which is no longer operating. Pelican Mayor Patricia Phillips said losing Pelican Seafoods permanently would be a crippling blow to the community. "It's a really big deal...
...revenue to consistently run and pay its employees, under the new rate. "I feel good about it," said Pelican Mayor Patricia Phillips. Kake Tribal Corp. officials did not return phone calls by press time. Previously, Kake Tribal attempted to justify...
...for our economic difficulties. The city of Pelican is earnestly seeking solutions, in a spirit of cooperation, to resolve our infrastructure and economic needs so that our peace and prosperity will be restored. Patricia Phillips Pelican
...share of the burden on the entire coast, while implementing the new coastwide model formula. James Phillips and Patricia Phillips own a commercial fishing business. They live in Pelican.
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