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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 Senate bill would make pollock trawlers keep their nets off the seafloor. Three industry associations say fishing higher in the water 'will increase encounters with salmon.' If the rule took effect, could anyone tell whether they were right?

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