Alaska Fish Wars

<p><strong><em>Alaska Fish Wars </em></strong>is fictional but the <strong>conflicts are real and have raged for more than sixty years</strong>... and <strong>continue today</strong>. <strong><em>Alaska Fish Wars </em></strong>is an <strong>insight into the arguments nobody wins</strong>...<strong>especially the resource</strong>.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Violent incidents</strong> in Alaska on the <strong>Kenai River</strong> and <strong>commercial fishing grounds of Cook Inlet </strong>near the <strong>Gulf of Alaska prompt</strong> Alaska State Trooper Andy Biggs to contact State Senator Price in an <strong>attempt to change fishing regulations</strong> causing harsh attitudes <strong>leading to violence</strong>. The good senator formed a panel composed of commercial fishermen subsistence users Fish and Game biologists and regulators sports fishing guides and other <strong>special interest group leaders</strong> to hold<strong> hearings </strong>on the matter. <strong>Outside interests meaning non-Alaskans pay protesters to </strong>disrupt the hearings. <strong>Every faction of Alaska's fishing industry</strong> has s<strong>trong self-serving opinions and personal stakes </strong>in the issues being considered by the panel which<strong> leads to even more violent incidents</strong>. Several <strong>State politicians </strong>involve themselves in the arguments and are <strong>paid for their votes by cannery owners rejecting the proposed changes</strong>. </p>