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Alaskans are rallying behind a potential trawling ban as salmon runs collapse and political pressure mounts—despite industry claims that bycatch is minimal and climate change, not trawling, is to blame. With election season heating up, politicians are taking sides, proposing gear regulations and research bills, while the pollock fleet fights back, arguing that seabed damage is overstated and economic survival is at stake. The debate is now a central campaign issue, with no easy answers—and no one’s backing down.

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