Gabe Dunham

Focus

• Commercial fisheries business management and operation
• Applied skills, technical, and marine safety training
• Direct marketing and alternative seafood markets
• Fisheries access and crew training
• Seafood and natural resource economics
• Working waterfronts and community economic development

Expertise

• Natural resource economics
• Business management
• Survey design and analysis
• Facilitation
• Commercial fishing
• Marine and automotive propulsion
• Hydraulic, electrical, and refrigeration systems

Education

• MS Environmental and Natural Resource Economics – University of Rhode Island
• BBA Business Management and Economics – University of Alaska Anchorage
• AS Auto, Truck and Industrial Technology – Universal Technical Institute

Experience

Gabe Dunham is a lifelong Alaskan from Petersburg, with an academic and applied background that includes degrees in business and economics and work experience as a Sea Grant extension agent, commercial fisherman, and boat mechanic. He is currently the Marine Advisory Program leader and fisheries specialist for Alaska Sea Grant, and holds the position of Associate Professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Gabe’s work focuses on commercial fisheries business and workforce development, including workshops and classes on fisheries business, technical training, direct marketing, and marine safety.

Current Projects

• AK On Board: Commercial Fishing Crewmember Training and Apprenticeship Program
• Alaska Sea Grant FishBiz: financial and business tools for Alaska commercial seafood harvesters
• Alaska Young Fishermen’s Summit
• Alaska Sea Grant Business of Fishing
• Direct Marketing Training & Advising
• Pacific Fisheries, Aquaculture, and Seafood Alliance: Coastal Infrastructure Working Group