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Article: TOWN DEPENDS ON COPPER RIVER FOR ECONOMIC SURVIVAL.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- March 19, 1999
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Vivid in color and rich in flavor, sockeye and king salmon from Alaska's Copper River are to many connoisseurs the finest fish to hit the market in Seattle each year.
The Emerald City's spring delicacy, harvested from shallow, storm-swept waters at the mouth of Alaska's fifth-largest river system, has become the sustenance of this isolated fishing town. Cordova, reachable only by air and by sea, has seen the decline of Prince William Sound's fishery since the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.
``Kill the Copper River and you kill this town,'' said Mike O'Leary, a fisherman who recently shared Cordova's annual ``Citizen of the Year'' award with his wife.
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