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Transcript: Bering Sea Ecosystem May Be Threatened by Fishing
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- NPR All Things Considered
- Article date:
- December 6, 1993
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LINDA WERTHEIMER, Host: Is the Bering Sea ecosystem in danger? That
story in this half hour of All Things Considered.
[theme music for `All Things Considered']
WERTHEIMER: Fishing fleets take more than a million tons of pollack
from the Bering Sea each year. Some Alaskan natives and environmentalists
are linking that fish harvest to a decline in Bering Sea birds and
mammals.
1st MAN: [tape clip] We began noting unusual behaviors beginning
about the mid-seventies. When we fleshed the fur seal pelt we could
see the light through it and because the elders never remembered anything
like- remotely like that, we suspected there was something bad ...