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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Exxon Valdez Spill

This undated photo provided by Robert J. Kopchak shows Robert J. Kopchak standing by a sign in front of the Fisherman's Union Hall 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.