Alaska Senate passes bill that ties hunting and fishing residency requirements to PFD eligibility

The Alaska State Capitol doors on June 16, 2021. (Andrew Kitchenman/KTOO and Alaska Public Media)
Kurt Whitehead lives in Klawock on Prince of Wales Island, and every summer, he said, as the humpbacks and herring and salmon return, so too do the island’s seasonal residents.
“They’re basically tourists,” he said by phone Monday. “You can be nice and call them seasonal residents, but really, they only come to our state just for the hunting and the fishing, and sometim