{"id":48303,"date":"2019-05-22T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T18:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/juneau-man-takes-executive-role-with-united-fishermen-of-alaska\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T10:20:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T18:20:00","slug":"juneau-man-takes-executive-role-with-united-fishermen-of-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/juneau-man-takes-executive-role-with-united-fishermen-of-alaska\/","title":{"rendered":"Juneau man takes executive role with United Fishermen of Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Juneau man is making the move to Alaska&rsquo;s statewide commercial fishing trade association.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Kelley was named the new executive administrator of the United Fishermen of Alaska, effective in June, according to a press release Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Kelley is the former director of Commercial Fisheries for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. He is replacing current executive administrator Mark Vinsel, who is retiring.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Scott&rsquo;s immense knowledge of commercial fisheries in Alaska is well-respected and his relationship with commercial fishermen is extremely valuable,&rdquo; UFA Executive Director Frances Leah said in a release. &ldquo;We are very lucky to have him join our organization.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>UFA is the statewide commercial fishing umbrella association, representing 35 member organizations from fisheries throughout Alaska and its offshore waters.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>\u2022 This is a Juneau Empire report.<\/b><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Kelley has a new title and job. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":48304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-48303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48303","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\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48303"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=48303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}