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Alaska to pay $70 million in refunds for commercial fishing license fees

Fishermen from outside Alaska can expect nearly $70 million in refunds for commercial fishing license fees the Alaska Supreme Court says were unconstitutionally high.

More than 11,000 license holders were reviewed by the state, which determined that more than 4,000 overpaid their fees and were due refunds amounting to $68.3 million.

The class-action lawsuit was filed by Donald Carlson and other nonresident fishermen and has become one of the longest active cases in Alaska, spanning half the state's history. It reached the state's highest court four times since it was originally filed in 1984.

The out-of-state fishermen claimed the state's fees were unfairly, and unconstitutionally, high.

The court said it is legal to charge nonresidents more, because the state subsidizes some of the cost of managing the fishery with state resources. But the court determined that in many cases the amounts charged to nonresidents were too high.

Posted on:2009-12-03
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Type of Case: Consumer
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