Susan Doherty, who worked at the Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association from 1980 to 2017, will return to the hatchery operator as general manager starting Jan. 22.
Ketchikan-based SSRAA operates seven salmon hatcheries in Southern Southeast, including the Burnett Inlet hatchery on Etolin Island, about 25 miles south of Wrangell. The facility incubates mostly chum salmon, along with a small number of coho, according to SSRAA’s website.
Doherty will be the fifth general manager to run the association since it was created in 1976. SSRAA is funded by a 3% tax on commercial salmon catches in the region, as well as revenues from cost-recovery salmon harvests at its sites.
The association said it typically produces up to 235 million juvenile salmon for release annually.
“In 1980, Doherty came through Ketchikan to visit a friend on her way further north for a job with Prince William Sound Aquaculture,” the association said in announcing her appointment as manager. “Impressed with her work, supervisors offered her a seasonal position, which then grew into a full-time, year-round position. By the time she left SSRAA in 2017, she was the research and evaluation manager.”
Doherty served as executive director for the Southeast Alaska Seiners before accepting the SSRAA job. She will replace outgoing general manager David Landis.
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