1.   Canada accuses U.S. fishermen of taking too many Fraser River sockeye salmon in Canadian waters, but U.S. officials respond that Canadian fishermen also operate off the Alaskan coast.

2.   Canada accuses U.S. fishermen of overfishing in Canadian waters, while U.S. officials point out that Canadian trawlers also operate off the Alaskan coast.

3.   Instead, test missiles will be fired from a state-owned site on Kodiak Island off the Alaskan coast.

4.   It was a site off the Alaskan coast thought to be the greatest new oil field in years, comparable perhaps to the richest in the Middle East.