Fifty years ago this year, on Jan. 3, 1959, President Dwight D, Eisenhower signed the proclamation making Alaska the nation's 49th state. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of statehood, Alaskans have spent much of 2009 revisiting the long struggle towin admission to the union, and recognizing the industries that sustain the young state - oil, mining, tourism and, of course, commercial fishing. Today Alaska stands as a seafood powerhouse, a prodigious producer of pollock and other groundfish, salmon, halibut, sablefish, king crab and other species.
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