Why are king salmon disappearing in Alaska?
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Biologists blame shifting currents, but many Alaskans think pollock fishing is the problem. People living along the Yukon River in Alaska think the use of nets to catch pollock may be to blame. Pollock fishing in the state, the biggest in the nation, pulls about 1 million metric tons of pollock each year from the eastern Bering Sea -- with a wholesale value of nearly $1 billion. But king salmon get caught in the huge pollock trawl nets. Since 2000, the incidental number of king salmon caught has skyrocketed, reaching more than 120,000 kings in 2007, the AP reported. Many of those fish were bound for western Alaska rivers. Had those fish lived, an estimated 78,000 adult king salmon would have returned to rivers from the Pacific Northwest to western Alaska. http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/Dispatch/market-dispatches.aspx?post=1211909
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