Kalmakoff v. State, Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission

OPINION

RABINO WITZ, Justice.

Nine years ago, Artemie Kalmakoff applied for a limited entry permit for the Chignik purse seine salmon fishery. The Commercial Fisheries Entry Commission denied his request and the superior court affirmed this denial. On appeal, he attacks the Commission’s factual findings and parts of the point system that is used to determine who receives permits. We affirm in part, reverse in part, and remand for further proceedings.

After it received Kalmakoff’s application, the Commission’s staff eventually decided that he should be awarded seventeen points. 1 He had fished as…