Alaska's Manufacturing

Do you guys eat fish? I love Alaskan Salmon. If you eat fish and you should tried smoked Alaskan salmon. The reality is that Alaska has a good fish processing industry. I don’t know how expensive is to buy fish there, but it might be cheap. Or maybe not. If you have a lot of ocean/sea water and all the condition for fishing, that does not mean that the fish will be really cheap to buy. An example which I personally experienced is the expensive fish from Italy. Even if this country has a lot of sea coast, the fish is stil expensive…

Alaska’s manufacture is also centered in petroleum and the processing of lumber. Of Alaska’s top 10 employees, five of them are engaged in petroleum industry (example ARCO, VECO).

Other industry group is in the fields of printing and publishing.

With the growing of manufacturing produces, the wages of Alaskan people raised, too. This grow was at a rate of 3.6% in 2000. The largest industry in 2000 were services (about 20% of total earnings), state and local government (17%), transportation (10%)

Sources:

http://livingindryden.org/images/excursions/lumberStickley11292005B.jpg

http://www.city-data.com/states/Alaska-Industry.html

www.canada-photos.com

http://static.panoramio.com