71.   The wild salmon he pulled out of the river looked lifeless.

72.   A decade ago, wild salmon from Alaska fisheries alone stocked nearly half the world market, said salmon expert Gunnar Knapp of the University of Alaska.

73.   But conservationists fear that if the fish escape they could endanger wild salmon in the North Atlantic.

74.   That share has shrunk to less than one-third the world supply, even while resources of wild salmon have reached historic proportions.