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February 28, 2024

Commentary: U.S. salmon purchase is just a Band-Aid

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The Alaska Congressional delegation is singing praises for a new $100 million bailout of the state’s floundering commercial salmon processing business.

In a joint statement from the office of Sen. Lisa Murkowski, the trio applauded the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) move with the state’s senior Republican lawmaker tried to spin it as a new poverty program to provide “almost $100 million of Alaskan seafood for people experiencing food insecurity.

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