FOR ALASKA SALMON FISHERMEN, IT'LL BE A STRING YEAR

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Editor's note: For Stats Pack articles such as this, we often allow fish house executives to speak off the record. They're more willing to talk that way. It's a great year for salmon fishermen, and a bad year for processors. Three reasons: A short year for many Alaska salmon runs. Strong consumer demand that will push up grounds prices to the fishermen. Tight, and expensive, credit. "For the next 12 months, if you're in the salmon-processing business, there's not going to be a whole lot of blue sky," said an executive of a major seafood processor in Seattle.