Climate Change and Regulations Squeeze Alaska's Salmon Fishers

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Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man how to fish, and he may live to regret the havoc climate change wrecks on the fish's natural habitat.

Salmon fishers in Alaska face a cascade of challenges as state regulators implement a series of restrictions to prevent overfishing of a species that's struggling to survive in rapidly warming waters brought by climate change, according to a Wall Street Journal report last weekend.

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