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The last skipper in Ouzinkie: How Gulf of Alaska villages lost their Native fishing fleets

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A permitting system designed in the 1970s was supposed to make Alaska’s commercial fishing industry more sustainable and more profitable. But over the last 50 years, it has hollowed out many Indigenous coastal villages where residents no longer can earn a living by harvesting salmon.

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The last skipper in Ouzinkie: How Gulf of Alaska villages lost their Native fishing fleets • Alaska Beacon

Nick Katelnikoff learned to fish from his father, and he says his first paycheck as a fisherman came when he turned 8 years old. Now 76, pictured aboard his boat, the MZ L, he’s the last skipper running a commercial fishing vessel from his home village of Ouzinkie, on an island just north of Kodiak. (Photo by Nathaniel Herz/Northern Journal)This story was produced as part of the Pulitzer Center’s StoryReach U.S. Fellowship. It was reported and e…

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The last skipper in Ouzinkie: How Gulf of Alaska villages lost their Native fishing fleets

A system designed in the 1970s was supposed to make Alaska’s commercial fishing industry more sustainable and more profitable. But over the last 50 years, it has hollowed out many Indigenous coastal villages where residents no longer can earn a living by harvesting salmon.

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The last skipper in Ouzinkie: How Gulf of Alaska villages lost their Native fishing fleets - The Alaska Current

A permitting system designed in the 1970s was supposed to make Alaska’s commercial fishing industry more sustainable and more profitable. But over the last 50 years, it has hollowed out many Indigenous coastal villages where residents no longer can earn a living by harvesting salmon.

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