As Polar Ice Turns to Water, Dreams of Treasure Abound: “The fishing industry, a business where surviving one year to the next is the main worry, has largely not taken notice of the changes, although American crab boats are finding they have to steam farther and farther to haul in a decent catch. ‘If the crabs move over into the Russian zone,’ said Glenn Reed, the president of the Pacific Seafood Processors Association in Seattle, ‘there’s not much to be done about that except hope they come back someday.’”

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