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Alaska – 2014 Retrospective, Fishing Notables, Fish Picks and Pans

Alaska still has its share of naysayers who will quibble about the seafood industry’s importance to our great state. They dismiss the fact that fishing was Alaska’s first industry and was fish that spawned the push to statehood. Shrimp remained as America’s top seafood favorite, but salmon bumped canned tuna to take over the second spot. A first lawsuit challenged a new law designed to clamp down on hired skippers fishing the halibut and sablefish quota shares owned by others. Read the rest here 10:00