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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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A proposed federal cap would limit the Western Alaska chum salmon that Bering Sea pollock trawlers catch by accident. Suppose it takes effect and one sector of the fleet reaches its limit in July. Going by the council's notice, what does that sector lose?

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