The executive director of Alaska’s largest seafood marketing firm announced on Friday she’s stepping down.<\/p>\n
Alexa Tonkovich, head of the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute, will resign to pursue a master’s degree, ASMI announced in a Friday release.<\/p>\n
“After nine years at ASMI, the timing felt right to further my education and prepare myself for wherever the next steps in my career may lead,” Tonkovich said in a prepared release.<\/p>\n
Tonkovich will stay on through mid-December to assist with recruitment. She has led the agency since 2015.<\/p>\n
ASMI is a public-private partnership funded by a small tax on seafood landings and the State of Alaska. The state zeroed out<\/a> ASMI’s state funding from its 2019 budget. State funding for the institute (above the fish tax) has declined in the past five years from $7.8 million<\/a> to zero<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Contact reporter Kevin Gullufsen at 523-2228 and kgullufsen@juneauempire.com. Follow him on Twitter at @KevinGullufsen.<\/b><\/p>\n She’s led the agency since 2015. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":38302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[499,230,500],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-38301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-alaska-seafood-marketing-institute","tag-state-news","tag-state-of-alaska"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38301"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=38301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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