Photo by Obadiah Kopchak

Robert J. Kopchak stands by a sign in front of the Fisherman's Union Hall on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 in Cordova, Alaska. Kopchak lost a quarter of his earnings when the lucrative Pacific herring fishery crashed in the 1990s after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska's Prince William Sound.

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