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State funding dries up for Southeast Alaska hatchery king salmon programs


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The state of Alaska has told hatchery operators in Southeast Alaska it is ending a program that provides funding for king and coho salmon production . That announcement leaves the future of the Crystal Lake Hatchery on southern Mitkof Island near Petersburg up in the air. Crystal Lake is owned by the state, which contracts out its operations to the Ketchikan-based Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association for just over 517-thousand dollars a year. King salmon produced there are
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