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As halibut decline, Alaska Native fishers square off against industrial fleets
The tiny fishing fleet from St. Paul is losing the fight for halibut, up against factory ships that throw away more of the valuable fish than the Indigenous fishers are allowed to catch.
Halibut are the primary target for Indigenous fishermen in parts of Alaska. Populations are declining, leaving less fish to go around, especially as factory trawlers are scooping them up with the other fish they catch.Photograph by Danita Delimont, Alamy
ByMiranda Weiss
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Each year in mid-June, Father John, dressed in long black robes, heads to the small boat harbor on St. Paul, a tiny island of 500 souls in the middle of the Bering Sea. It’s the start of the fishing season, and the Blessing of the Fleet is a community affair, an opportunity to give best wishes to the fishermen heading out into the unforgiving northern waters in search of halibut.
Despite his attempts to dissuade them, volunteers turned the tables on Kenneth Isaacson and provided Christmas gifts and homemade meals for him and his family for Christmas Eve and Day.
Chris Woodley, of Dearborn Heights, one of Kid Santaâs âelves,â said some of the volunteers pooled their own resources to buy the items, which included a gift card for him to use to replace his cell phone, which has a cracked screen, and some of the Emergency Medical Technician equipment he wanted.
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She said a volunteer delivered a homemade lasagna for their Christmas Eve dinner and she delivered a ham dinner for his family, which includes his adoptive parents and sister.