21. Commercial fishing and recreation jobs would rebound, they said. 22. Congress has begun to debate controversial quota systems that would allow commercial fishing throughout the year, with fisherman allotted shares of the total allowable catch in a fishery. 23. Cutting trees, he mused, was difficult work, like firefighting, logging or commercial fishing. 24. Environmental groups, Gov. Mike Lowry and commercial fishing interests also rated high in the poll. 25. For more than a century, this rough-and-ready district of deep mines, big smokestacks, and blue collars has depended on steel, coal, and commercial fishing. 26. Fishing fell victim to the same forces that have nearly killed commercial fishing elsewhere -- a dearth of fish and a change in fleets to large factory trawlers. 27. For Alaskans the land supports commercial fishing, tourism and other industries dependent on a healthy environment. 28. George Washington relied on commercial fishing for his personal economy to supplement the crops. 29. Heavy logging and commercial fishing contributed to loss of salmon, an important food source for the Pacific Northwest whales. 30. Ignore the hundreds of miles of oil-soaked Alaskan coastline and the devastated commercial fishing. |