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Alaska's salmon collapse and the trawler fight

The science points at the ocean. The politics point at the fleet.

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Under the 2024 Alaska-Canada agreement, subsistence fishing for Yukon River chinook can reopen only if a run clears 71,000 fish at the border. How do the two governments decide whether it will?

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