Gov. Sean Parnell last week signed the fiscal 2012 capital budget, which totals more than $2.7 billion. Deckboss took a look and found quite a few items of interest to the fishing industry — items that survived the governor's veto pen. Here's a list, starting with the state department affiliated with each project.
• Commerce — Bristol Bay Borough, port expansion, $2,000,000
• Commerce — Cordova, breakwater extension and boat ramp, $1,400,000
• Fish and Game — Cordova, dock and uplands improvements, $650,000
• Commerce — Egegik, dock repair, $55,000
• Commerce — Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Mariculture Research Facility, $300,000
• Commerce — Kodiak Island Borough, Anton Larsen dock, $2,000,000
• Commerce — Kodiak Maritime Museum, Harbor Gateway Project, $298,000
• Commerce — Metlakatla Indian Community, Annette Island Packing Co. freezer expansion, $2,000,000
• Commerce — Prince of Wales Island, Alaska Oyster Cooperative, upgrade existing building to a shellfish processing facility, $106,500
• Commerce — Seward, Alutiq Pride Shellfish Hatchery upgrade, $250,000
• Commerce — Seward, CDQ fishing fleet relocation study, $400,000
• Commerce — Wrangell, boat yard improvements, $3,700,000
• Commerce — Yukon River Drainage Fisheries Association, Yukon River Chinook salmon management plan, $300,000
• Commerce — Alaska Sustainable Salmon Fund program, $1,030,000
• Fish and Game — Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund, $12,000,000
• Fish and Game — Pacific Salmon Treaty Chinook fishery mitigation, $7,500,000
• Commerce — Celebrate Seafood Inc., advancing a National Seafood Marketing Association, $200,000
• Transportation — Feasibility study, joint moorage facility for Alaska Marine Highway System ferries and NOAA research vessels, $500,000
• Public Safety — Marine fisheries patrol improvements, $2,000,000
• Fish and Game — Westward Region Didson sonar purchase, $105,000
• Commerce — Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association, Trail Lakes Hatchery maintenance and upgrade, $865,000
• Commerce — Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association, Tustumena Lake smolt out-migration monitoring, $45,000
• Commerce — Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association, Tutka Bay Hatchery maintenance and upgrade, $591,000
• Commerce — Douglas Island Pink and Chum Inc., Snettisham Hatchery maintenance and upgrade, $1,250,000
• Commerce — Kodiak Regional Aquaculture Association, Kitoi Bay Hatchery maintenance and upgrade, $1,308,000
• Commerce — Kodiak Regional Aquaculture Association, lake nutrient enrichment project, $720,000
• Commerce — Kodiak Regional Aquaculture Association, Pillar Creek Hatchery maintenance and upgrade, $767,000
• Commerce — Northern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association, net pens and hatchery deferred maintenance, $707,800
• Commerce — Northern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association, Hidden Falls Hatchery maintenance and upgrade, $1,044,000
• Commerce — Prince William Sound Aquaculture Corp., nets pens and hatchery deferred maintenance, $426,000
• Commerce — Prince William Sound Aquaculture Corp., Cannery Creek hatchery maintenance and upgrade, $2,224,000
• Commerce — Prince William Sound Aquaculture Corp., Gulkana Hatchery maintenance and upgrade, $838,000
• Commerce — Prince William Sound Aquaculture Corp., Main Bay Hatchery maintenance and upgrade, $2,113,000
• Commerce — Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association, net pens and hatchery deferred maintenance, $400,000