In an unannounced decision, Dunleavy selected Rick Green for the highly paid position regulating the state’s commercial fisheries last month.
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy speaks to reporters during a news conference Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2024. a conservative talk radio host’s appointment to a highly paid position regulating the state’s commercial fisheries.
On the airwaves for more than 15 years, Green was known as Rick Rydell during a colorful career as a talk host. His on-air character was that of an “unabashed redneck,” according to one of theOne of those books also chronicled how, with two other hunting enthusiasts, Rydell once attempted to shoot, legally, 30 bears in a single long weekend.
The fishery commission, with some 20 employees, does largely low-key bureaucratic work — including issuing annual commercial fishing permits, granting and denying permit transfers in the event of illnesses and deaths, and publishing fisheries reports and statistics.in recent years for what critics say is a small workload and yearly commissioner salaries that can exceed $135,000.
Robinson declined to specify Green’s exact compensation, referring to salary guidelines that are tied to the number of years an employee has previously worked in state government jobs. Haight, the commission’s chair, said that Green would be in the same range as Porcaro, who was paid at a $136,000-a-year salary rate before lawmakers rejected his appointment.
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