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Julie Decker

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Julie Decker is the executive director of the Alaska Fisheries Development Foundation. Her family owns and operates a small commercial fishing vessel out of Wrangell, Alaska.

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A crewman on the F/V Magnus Martens pulls and sets cod pots during the state water Pacific cod season near Dutch Harbor. Keith Bell photo.

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