WITHIN five years of the ‘Americanisation’ of the 200-mile limit, all of the bottom fish of the region were being harvested by US catcher vessels and the emergence of a US at-sea and on-shore processing industry was under way.
The coalition of fishermen and processors – although fragile at times – held together until it was no longer needed.
The lagging development of the shore processing industry and the delayed growth of US at-sea processors were not due, as many suggested, to a lack of interest on the part of the historical salmon and crab operators, but to the economics of fishing and processing.
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