Tag Archives: Seattle’s $5 billion commercial fishing industry

Thanks for All the Fish: Pollock, salmon and global warming: The tricky questions of sustainability

October 2, 2013   North Pacific

Editor’s note: Seattle’s $5 billion commercial fishing industry has defined and sustained this city from its founding. Earlier this week, writer Daniel Jack Chasan looked at the local fleet’s key role in the world’s largest single fishery, the walleye pollock off Alaska’s coast and in the eastern Bering Sea. Today, he concludes the examination of the pollock’s sustainability and we wrap up our Thanks for All the Fish series. more@crosscut 09:57

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Thanks for all the fish – Crosscut delves into the vital, sprawling, oft-forgotten heart of Seattle’s economy and character: commercial fishing

September 4, 2013   North Pacific, Pacific

Editor’s Note: Seattle’s $5 billion commercial fishing industry has defined and sustained this city from its founding. For the next few weeks, Crosscut will explore the still-potent economic impact of the region’s fisheries, the surprising history behind them and the complex environmental equations that sustain them. What, you didn’t know this city was built on cod? By Eric Scigliano  It’s easy to forget the gritty, all-too-real trade of fishing in a city and an era enthralled with digital distraction. more@crosscut  10:05

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