Salmon being sorted at sorting Taku Smokeries, on June 27, 2011, in Juneau, Alaska. (Photo courtesy Gillfoto/Wikimedia Commons)
Salmon being sorted at sorting Taku Smokeries, on June 27, 2011, in Juneau, Alaska. (Photo courtesy Gillfoto/Wikimedia Commons)

“I’ve never seen market conditions as bad as they are now,” Doug Vincent-Lang, commissioner of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, told a conference of Southeast business, community and municipal government leaders last week.

“Last year we said we reached rock bottom,” Jeremy Woodrow, executive director of the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute, said of low prices,…