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Alaskan Salmon Are Booming in One Sweet Spot, for Now
This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network, a nonprofit investigative-news organization.
On a mid-July afternoon, when the tide was starting to come in on the Naknek River, the Bandle family’s commercial fishing nets lay stretched across the beach, waiting for the water to rise. With the fishing crew on break, Sharon Bandle emerged from a tar-paper-sided cabin that serves as kitchen and bunkhouse with a plate of tempura salmon and a bowl