Sitka zoo

摘要

Will yet another characteristically combative herring sac roe derby in Alaska's Sitka Sound finally push the fishery to more rational management? One veteran purse seiner sure hopes so. "It's like going into an alley full of bullies," says Scott McAllister, describing what fishing is like at Sitka. With only 49 permitted boats, Sitka is hardly the biggest of Alaska's commercial fisheries. But it's surely the most hotly contested, a bruising scrum where crews can bag a fortune or go home broke after afew brief fishing periods.