Commercial fishing key to Wrangell's survival

摘要

Pat Ellis is a Petersburg boy who's found Wrangell both pleasing and profitable, now that he's running Wrangell Boat Shop. But why move 40 miles to set up shop within the city limits of your hometown's rival? "Things are looking up. I came here threeyears ago now, and it started to pick up then. That's one of the reasons I moved from Petersburg: Wrangell is climbing." Quite a feat for a town economically gutted with the closure of the Tongass National Forest to loggers and the mills they feed. Wrangell Mayor Don McConachie has the same message: "We had a downturn in the forest products industry and the fishing industry. We knew we had to reinvent ourselves, and fishing has had a lot to do with it.