Brandal v. State, Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission

OPINION

FABE, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

This case arises from the Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission's (CFEC) denial of Henry Brandal's application for a limited entry permit to fish in the Chignik purse seine fishery. Brandal, who has lived and fished in Kodiak for four decades, initially applied for a permit in 1977 and received a recommended decision denying his application in 1982. But the application was not officially denied for another twenty-two years, during which Brandal continued to fish.

Brandal appeals the superior court's affir-mance of the CFEC's decision on both substantive and…