he disaster that is unfolding with our Dungeness stocks is the same story that has happened in other places in Southeast Alaska. Some believe that there is such resilience in the wild populations that even our most damaging destruction will be repaired by Mother Nature. It doesn’t work that way.

These excerpts are from Ronald Leighton’s 2010 correspondence when he was chairman of the cultural committee of the village of Kassan.

“The 2009 summer Dungeness…