Amid A Big Fight For Cod In The Bering Sea, Can Adak Survive?
Update: 2019-10-10
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A heap of slimy fish heads nearly filled a deep tote. Above, workers finished sorting stacks of decapitated halibut they had run through a grim mechanical apparatus. "Right here, we have a guillotine blade," said Mike Lauer, showing off the de-heading device. "We'll sell the cheeks, and then we can use the heads for bait." Lauer is in charge of quality control for Golden Harvest, a processing plant in Adak that's at the center of a Bering Sea fish war, which has pitted two small Aleutian Island communities against large, out-of-state fishing interests. The implications of the fight could stretch to other coastal fishing towns in Alaska. At the center of the dispute is cod, which has grown increasingly valuable, especially since stocks in the Gulf of Alaska have crashed in recent years . Amid an increasingly competitive race for cod in the Bering Sea, local groups have pushed for a portion of the catch to go to the plant in Adak. Large commercial operators oppose the effort, saying the
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