State of Alaska accuses prominent Kodiak family of widespread fishing permit fraud

Kodiak family accused of more than 30 fishery violations

Duncan Fields has served on the Kodiak Island Borough School District’s Board of Education for years. (Brian Venua/KMXT) Alaska Wildlife Troopers are accusing four members of Kodiak’s Fields family as well as their fishing business, Fields & Sons Inc., of allegedly generating $1.17 million in illegal revenue between 2020 and 2024. That’s according to a dispatch from Alaska State Troopers on Tuesday, April 8. Duncan Fields, 69; Wallace Fields, 64…

State of Alaska accuses prominent Kodiak family of widespread fishing permit fraud

As a side effect, a legislator has paused a fast-moving fishing bill in the state Capitol.

Alaska accuses prominent Kodiak family of widespread fishing permit fraud

A Bristol Bay sockeye salmon "mob" gathers in August 2004 in the Wood River, which flows into the Nushagak River just north of Dillingham. (Photo by Thomas Quinn/, University of Washington)State prosecutors have accused Kodiak fisher Duncan Fields and other members of his family of defrauding the state and fish buyers through a coordinated scheme that involved committing perjury and manipulating permits. Court documents filed Monday state that F…

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Fields family members charged over fishing permits

Longtime Kodiak setnetter and fisheries advocate Duncan Fields is being charged with multiple criminal counts related to gifting of commercial setnet permits between 2020 and 2024.

ASMI board member faces felonies over Kodiak salmon permit swapping scheme

Duncan Fields has been an Alaska commercial fisherman since the 1960s. He's also a former North Pacific Fishery Management Council member and sits on the state's seafood marketing board