In a response to the January Alaska State Legislature Finance Committee meeting, during which lawmakers cranked up the pressure on Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute (ASMI) Executive Director Alexa Tonkovich to shutter the Seattle office, she responded with a plan of action to transfer the six Seattle positions to Juneau by the end of 2019.

While Tonkovich stressed that "the organization should maintain Seattle-based staff for these critical domestic marketing programs," and provided a page-long defense to keep the office open, she also presented a plan to gradually transfer the positions to Alaska, as the committee had requested.

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