Coastal Village's Highly Compensated Management Blamed for Kuskokwim's Crippling Fishing Closure
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Alaska Dispatch News] by Lisa Demer - July 25, 2016
Expensive fishing nets sit on the hardware store shelves, unsold. Families struggle to buy baby diapers, back-to-school clothes and gasoline for boats that take them to favorite berry-picking spots. Some people have seen their water cut off for lack of payment.
Normal life is being upended in Quinhagak, a Southwest Alaska fishing village with no fishing this year for the commercial fleet. Skiffs are ready, kings were plentiful, silvers are starting to show up and brokers from the Seattle area who flew to the village say markets are eager for wild Alaska salmon...
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