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  • Start Your Business
    • Step 1: Explore Your Options
    • Step 2: Determine Your Fishery’s Value
    • Step 3: Will It Pencil Out?
    • Step 4: Financing
    • Step 5: Planning for Success
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Start your business

Start Your Business

Choose a fishery
Pencil out a plan
Find financing

Grow and diversify

Grow and Diversify

Update business plan
Finance an expansion
Direct marketing

Manage your business

Manage Your Business

Lower expenses
Track income
Manage fish tickets

Plan an exit strategy

Plan an Exit Strategy

Learn how to divest
Create a will
Sell your permit or quota

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Alaska Sea Grant is headquartered at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and is part of a national network of Sea Grant programs administered by NOAA.

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