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Two authors from a fisheries report by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game

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Two authors from a fisheries report by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game

TheTechnician27@lemmy.world to Nominative Determinism@feddit.ukEnglish · 2 months ago

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The 2011 report in question, titled: “Annual Management Report for the Commercial and Subsistence Shellfish Fisheries of the Aleutian Islands, Bering Sea and the Westward Region’s Shellfish Observer Program, 2009/10”

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But they did focus on one particular species, when fish were more abundant.

https://www.scotfishmuseum.org/the-herring-boom.php

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