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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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The 2024 Alaska-Canada agreement counts Canadian-origin chinook. In September 2026 two figures were cited for the chinook that pollock trawlers catch by accident. One said about 47% 'started in coastal Western Alaska' in 2023, the other that an estimated 105 came from the Upper or Middle Yukon in 2024. Which figure, if either, picks out the agreement's fish?

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