New Hatchery Product.

• Position: Alaska Aquaculture's bottled water to be marketed by Rainmaker Resources

A San Francisco company is preparing to distribute bottled water from the Burnett Inlet hatchery in Wrangell. Tod Jones, general manager of Alaska Aquaculture, the non-profit corporation that operates the hatchery, says the permit allowing the sale of the water has been granted by the state Department of Natural Resources.

"Right now the initial permit is for 4 million gallons a month. We hope to exceed that, since we run 4 million gallons of water a day through our turbines," Jones explains. He says Alaska Aquaculture already has a permit from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to draw off 490 million gallons per month. FERC permission is needed because of the hydroelectric plant at the fishery.

Jones says Rainmaker Resources of San Francisco approached the hatchery...