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March 29th, 2008

Sitka fishermen strike herring mother lode

big story here: adn.com | Commerical Fishing : Sitka fishermen strike herring mother lode

How about a job grossing half a million bucks in 60 minutes?  That’s what some commercial seine fishermen in Sitka scooped out of the water on Wednesday — in the form of fatty, silvery Pacific herring.  The Sitka sac roe herring fishery is already legendary for netting megabucks in minutes, but that day’s catch was still a shocker — for fishermen, regulators and seafood processors.

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