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Article: Wild about quality: if Alaska markets better salmon, ex-fisherman Mark Buckley says, the world will beat a path to its door.(Cover story)
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- National Fisherman
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- July 1, 2007
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The philosophical hard wiring of Alaska salmon advocate Mark Buckley commits him, as it does some scholars, on a path toward the ultimate goal of making contributions to the human race. Some say that trait plus his commitment to preserve the commercial fishing lifestyle and his unbridled enthusiasm for wild salmon as a superior food source makes him Alaska's strongest salmon ambassador.
"He provides a really unique, passionate view," says Bill Webber Sr., of Cordova, who will be gillnetting the Copper River Delta for his 39th year this summer. "I mean, it just radiates when he takes over the microphone."
For 22 summers, Buckley, 56, fished for Bristol ...