The scene is from Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass." It's what the Walrus said to the oysters just before he and the Carpenter slurped them down. To me, as the good citizens of Kodiak packed themselves into the high school auditorium for a Comfish seminar on March 17, they looked like neat rows of oysters. The man they came to see, Alaska Department of Fish and Game Commissioner McKie Campbell, struck a casual pose at the edge of the stage. Nicknamed "McK-Y" for his ability to lubricate mining into the state, Campbell has turned his talents to driving home the state's "Gulf groundfish rationalization" plan.
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