The Bay Pac

1991 year of Solidarity on the Entire State
Of Alaska fishing grounds.
The year that the SCABS broke the back of the BB fishery.
The Bristol Bay fleet settled for .77 cents a pound.
NOBODY was happy with that price.
Which , when adjusted for inflation, is over Double what is being offered now.
To reverse the .80 of today to 1991? That would be .35 cents back then.
Canneries would have been infernos if that price was even mouthed during that time.

Nuts.

Column: The salmon industry faces extinction — not because of drought, but politics and government policies State and federal government policies that favor farms have done far more damage to the salmon fishery than drought, another sign that California's water rights need rethinking.

If they are getting “free” fishing trips,
Is it truly Pro Bono?
Not only free trips but probably paid for hosted by a non local entity that only comes up during the Summer to R**e The Resources .

Is dumping 1,000,000,000 pounds of fish every 7 years wanton waste?

Just. Wondering.

The horrors of government dependency after all our other means of making a living are taken away , made illegal or denied.

Over 12,000 Alaskans are waiting on critical food aid as state’s new food stamp backlog swells The Alaska Division of Public Assistance fell out of compliance with federal law in late November as it tried to stem the latest backlog, which a top official described as “a growing crisis.”