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...empty; normally they would haul a catch worth somewhere around $10 million. Yes, a smattering of herring did manage to make it to the sound, up from their winter home in the Gulf of Alaska, but they were covered with sores and swam erratically. Worse, the area's pink salmon are also vanishing, leaving many fishermen on the brink of bankruptcy...
According to the release, at least one college students is known to have died while salmon fishing...
Purists in physics departments cringe these days, as more of the faithful leave the scientific fold. Stories of rocket scientists making a name for themselves at Salmon Brothers and Goldman Sachs abound...
...that a large part of America's oldest fishing area is now off limits. Populations of Atlantic bluefin tuna of breeding age have dropped 90% since 1975, and Pacific stocks are starting to fall as well. Orange roughy from the waters off New Zealand, redfish from the Caribbean, salmon off the American Northwest, Atlantic swordfish, Pacific perch -- all are vanishing...
...trout, which could not be used in salmon plants was given to workers who would, "take the Crisco used to lubricate the machines and fry the fish. We'd kill them, cut them up and eat them. They tasted amazing." Sometimes, David admits, workers would steal salmon too--sticking them into the spaces left by oversized boots...