June 30, 2006
Follow
the Money
An In-depth Look At Ben Stevens' Secret Fish Deals
by Ray Metcalfe, Republican Moderate Party of Alaska
Ben’s
Bribes
At Sea
Processors Association 2002/2001 = $16,000
At Sea Processors Association 2003/2002 = $38,000
Total = $54,000
Adak Fisheries 2001/2000 = $25,000
Adak Fisheries 2002/2001 = $15,000
Adak Fisheries 2003/2002 = $80,000
Adak Fisheries 2004/2003 = $120,000
Adak Fisheries 2005/2004 = $80,000
Adak Fisheries 2006/2005 = $50,000
Adak Fisheries 2006/2005 = $32,307
T = $402,307
Bering Sea Crab Effort Reduction Fund 2001/2000 = $42,500
T = $42,500
Glacier Fish Company 2003/2002 = $4,200
Glacier Fish Company 2004/2003 = $21,000
Glacier Fish Company 2005/2004 = $21,000
Glacier Fish Company 2006/2005 = $16,800
T = $63,000
Highland Light Fisheries, Inc. 2003/2002 = $4,200
Highland Light Fisheries, Inc. 2004/2003 = $25,200
Highland Light Fisheries, Inc. 2005/2004 = $25,200
T = $54,600
North Pacific Crab Association 2003/2002 = $44,000
North Pacific Crab Association 2004/2003 = $44,000
North Pacific Crab Association 2005/2004 = $42,000
North Pacific Crab Association 2006/2005 = $24,000
T = $154,000
NorQuest Seafoods, Inc. 2001/2000 = $12,500
NorQuest Seafoods, Inc. 2002/2001 = $25,000
T = $37,500
Yardarm Knot, Inc 2006/2005 = $33,600
T = $33,600
Unreported and thus far concealed from APOC: payments from Southeast
Seiners Association paid to Ben between November. 03 and August
05.
Estimated T = $100,000
The Booty Ben
Delivered
Trident money:
Ben’s business partner, Trevor McCabe is Executive
Director of At
Sea Processors. Trident got $1,358,291 of Ben’s AFMB
handouts.
Icicle bought into Adak
Fisheries and upped Ben’s salary from $15,000 to $80,000
and then to $120,000.
Icicle also signed the now infamous “Secret Option
agreement.” Icicle received
$1,678,277 in Ben Bucks from AFMB.
The Bering
Sea Crab Effort Reduction Fund was the
lobbying group formed by persons who received over
$9,000,000 Ben Bucks.
Glacier Fish
Company is a member of At Sea Processors and one of the first
beneficiaries of the Pollock
allocations that Ben’s father pushed through Congress.
Highland Light Fisheries
is a subsidiary of Yardarm Knot., who received $227,538 in Ben Bucks.
North Pacific Crab
Association was formed by Trident, Icicle, and other members of
the
crabbing industry, who were also privileged to receive a share of over
$9,000,000
in Ben Bucks from the Alaska Fish Marketing Board. (AFMB)
NorQuest Seafoods
received $862,454 in Ben Bucks from AFMB. NorQuest is owned by Trident
who
received $1,358,291. Combined they have received $2,220,745 at
Ben’s direction.
Yardarm Knot received
$227,538
Trying
to copy Trident and friends by getting a
$50,000,000 for themselves, the Southeast
Seiners Association paid Ben about $100,000 to try, and
promised him
another half a million if he does.
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Salmon Allocation Comparison – AFMB
Awards
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Firm
|
Allocation
for
FY
2004
|
Allocation
for
FY
2005
|
Total
to Date
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Ocean
Beauty Seafoods
|
$1.048.908.46
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$1,259,625.59
|
$2,308,534.05
|
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Icicle
Seafoods
|
$774,260.76
|
$904,016.58
|
$1,578,277.34
|
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Peter
Pan Seafoods
|
$737,284.09
|
$829.217.50
|
$1,566,501.59
|
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Trident
Seafoods Corporation
|
$577,210.61
|
$781,080.43
|
$1,358,291.04
|
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Bear
& Wolf LLC
|
$471.761.37
|
$530,344.02
|
$1
,002,105.39
|
|
NorOuest
Seafoods, Inc.
|
$496,351.14
|
$366,103.49
|
$802.454.63
|
|
North
Pacific Processors, Inc.
|
$346.228.51
|
$359,040.74
|
$705,269.25
|
|
Kanaway
Seafoods, Inc. dba Ak General Seafoods
|
$223,202.94
|
$344.515.90
|
$567.718.84
|
|
Kodiak
Salmon Packers, Inc.
|
$74,105.66
|
$135.141.89
|
$209,247.55
$224
9.11.35
|
|
Snopac
Products. Inc.
|
$102,682.58
|
$122.228.77
|
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Yardarm
Knot Fisheries. LLC
|
$123,963.56
|
5103.574.75
|
5227,538.31
|
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Inlet
Fish Producers. Inc.
|
$65,834.84
|
$8I,585.24
|
$147,420.08
|
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E.C.
Phillips & Son, Inc.
|
$63,649.95
|
$77,559.30
|
$141.209.25
|
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Leader
Creek Fisheries, LLC
|
$54,648.00
|
$70,693.79
|
$125,341.79
|
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Great
Pacific Seafoods. Inc.
|
$96,043.75
|
$63,507_00
|
$I59,550.75
|
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Seafood
Producers Cooperative
|
$48,024.36
|
561,514.84
|
$109,539.20
|
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Western
Alaska Fisheries, Inc.
|
$48,889.51
|
559,337.11
|
$108,226.62
$117,124.58
|
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Copper
River Fine Seafoods
|
$65,692.49
|
$51,432.09
|
|
Nautilus
Foods
|
$44.628.00
|
|
$44,628.00
$70,931.57
$53,344.75
|
|
Snug
Harbor Seafoods. Inc.
|
$34,245.97
|
$36,685.60
|
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Icy
Strait
Seafoods, Inc.
|
$18,674.70
|
$34.670.05
|
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Baywatch
Seafoods. LLC
|
$24,678.48
|
$28.249.17
|
$52,927.65
|
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Coffee
Point Seafood's
|
|
$25,793.66
|
$25,793.66
|
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Pacific
Star Seafoods /Fishhawk Fisheries of
AK,
Inc.
|
$19.686.84
|
$23,954.12
|
$43,640.96
|
|
Salamatof
Seatoods, Inc.
|
$25,514.75
|
$22,448.13
|
$47.962.88
|
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Alaska
Peninsula Fishermans Coop
|
$13,552.47
|
$22,142.52
|
$35.694.99
|
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Island
Fish Co, LLC dba Island Seafoods
|
|
$21,575.87
|
$21.575.87
$18.179.59
|
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Sea
Level Seafoods
|
|
$18.179.59
|
|
R&J
Seafood
|
$12,899.00
|
$13;117.95
|
$26.0.16.95
|
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Alaska
Salmon Purchasers, Inc.
|
$9,773.00
|
$9.203.75
|
$18,976.75
$6,390.19
|
|
TKO
Fisheries Limited dba Signature
Seafoods,
Inc.
|
|
$6.390.19
|
|
Deep
Creek Custom Packing Inc
|
$10,751
.56
|
$6.352.33
|
$17,103.89
|
|
Kwikpak
Fisheries LLC
|
$6,410.00
|
$5,178.86
|
$11,588.86
|
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Grand
Hale Marine Products Co Ltd.-
|
$4,480.41
|
$4,017.25
|
$8,497.66
|
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Boreal
Fisheries. Inc.
|
|
$2,314.96
|
$2.314.96
|
|
Prime
Select Seafoods
|
$3,279.10
|
$2,190.94
|
$5.470.04
|
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Interior
Alaska Fish Processors. Inc.
|
$1,528.00
|
|
$1.528.00
|
|
Star
Shadow Fisheries
|
$1.528.00
|
|
$1.528.00
|
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William
Crump
|
$980.00
|
|
$980.00
|
|
Maserculiq
Fish Processors, Inc.
|
$891.23
|
|
$891.23
|
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Wind
and Tide, Inc.
|
$704.00
|
|
$704.00
|
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Tim
Berg's Alaskan Fishing Advent,ires
|
$635.76
|
|
$635.76
|
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Coastal
Cold
Storage,
Inc.
|
$519.00
|
|
$519.00
|
|
Wild
By Nature LLC dba Wild Salmon Maxcy
Fishing
Company
|
$441.00
|
|
$441.00
|
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F/V
Ilona-B
|
$381.00
|
|
$381.00
|
|
Thorne
Fisheries
|
$379.00
|
|
$379.00
|
|
Tonka
Seafoods, Inc.
|
$338.00
|
|
$338.00
|
|
Kodiak
Smoking & Processing
|
$275.00
|
|
$275.00
|
|
F/V
Willie Lee II
|
$273.00
|
|
$273.00
|
|
FA/
Kaleva
|
$254.00
|
|
$254.00
|
|
FlV
Sea Comber
|
$228.00
|
|
$228.00
|
|
FiV
Myriad I Myriad Ent
|
$190.00
|
|
$190.00
|
|
FIV
Triad i Chris Chris Fisheries
|
$181.00
|
|
$181.00
|
|
Horst's
Seafood
|
$170.00
|
|
$170.00
|
|
Smoky
Bay Fisheries
|
$152.00
|
|
$152.00
|
|
Alaska
Flyin Fish Company
|
$149.00
|
|
$149.00
|
|
Arctic
Circle Seafood
|
$76.00
|
|
$76.00
|
|
Alaska
Wild Salmon Co I FA/ Dutch Master
|
$71.00
|
|
$71.00
|
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Seadance
Seafoods
|
$57.00
|
|
$57.00
|
|
Great
Ruby Fish Company
|
$55.00
|
|
$55.00
|
|
Pacman
Fisheries I Bristol Gold -=-Ternium
Sockeye
Salmon
|
$55.00
|
|
$55.00
|
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Gateway
Seafood and Smokehouse
|
$43.00
|
|
$43.00
|
|
Bell's
Seafood
|
$38.00
|
|
$38.00
|
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Lofoten
Fish Company
|
$36.00
|
|
$36.00
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