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Laine Welch

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Laine Welch has covered the Alaska fish beat for print and radio since 1988. She has also worked “behind the counter” at retail and wholesale seafood companies in Kodiak and Cape Cod. Click here to send her an email.

You can read more from Laine at alaskafish.news. 

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Norton Sound red king crab. NOAA photo.
Norton Sound red king crab. NOAA photo.

Lower quotas bring higher prices for Alaska crabbers

Boats tied up at Fishermen's Terminal, Seattle. Doug Stewart photo.
Boats tied up at Fishermen's Terminal, Seattle. Doug Stewart photo.

Washington wins when it comes to earnings from Alaska fishing

A geoduck farm on Hartsine Island, Wash. Geoduck clams are among the crops envisioned by an Alaska group promoting mariculture expansion. Creative Commons photo by lawdawg1.
A geoduck farm on Hartsine Island, Wash. Geoduck clams are among the crops envisioned by an Alaska group promoting mariculture expansion. Creative Commons photo by lawdawg1.

Alaska group eyes mariculture expansion

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