OPINION: Embarking on an America-first Seafood Strategy in Alaska
In 1787, Alexander Hamilton stressed the need for a united national effort to protect America’s ocean resources from stagnation and unfair foreign trade practices. Absent vigorous federal action to free our fisheries from barriers to growth and trade, “that unequalled spirit of enterprise, which signalises the genius of the American Merchants and Navigators, and which is in itself an inexhaustible mine of national wealth, would be stifled and lost.”
Since Hamilton wrote those words, Alaska became first a territory, then the 49th state in the Union, cementing itself as...
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