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STATE the associated press ANCHORAGE - Florence Johnson can rattle off myriad ways to prepare salmon. Drawing on a lifetime of fishing the Yukon River, she recommends canning, salting, or drying the fillets in her smokehouse near the heart of downtown Eagle.

Bering Sea pollock fleet faces closure over salmon

Jon Rowley / Kwik'pak Fisheries Llc Via The Associated Press

Thinning resource: In an undated photo, Aurie Waska uses an ulu knife to cut dried king salmon into strips at a fish camp on the lower Yukon River. Increasingly, salmon are being scooped up by the massive Bering Sea pollock fleet before they have a chance to reach rural Alaska communities.

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