A cannery in Southeast Alaska is at the forefront of America’s tinned fish renaissance

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A cannery in Southeast Alaska is at the forefront of America’s tinned fish renaissance

Owner Mathew Scaletta stands in front of Wildfish Cannery in the village of Klawock on Prince of Wales Island. (Bethany Sonsini Goodrich) Wildfish Cannery was founded in Klawock, Alaska in the late 1980s by a school teacher named Phyllis Mueller. Her grandson Mathew Scaletta is at the helm these days. Scaletta is passionate about food. He spent summers cutting fish at the cannery as a kid and then cut his teeth in the culinary world in Chicago a…