The Highliner

Commercial fishing is a bedrock industry in Alaska, and has been for more than a century. Every year scores of fishermen net millions of migrating salmon, challenge the icy Bering Sea to trap king crabs, lay miles and miles of baited hooks for halibut, and scoop up enough pollock for a zillion fish sticks. And when fishermen aren't out fishing, they're usually talking about fishing. That's what this blog is all about. Cast your net here for commercial fishing news and notes. And if you've got a bone to pick, post a comment.

About me:
I've pounded the commercial fishing beat for the Anchorage Daily News since 1999. I hail originally from Tennessee. I've never fished commercially, but I've spent much time as a journalist aboard boats and inside fish-processing plants. Of course, I'm a big consumer of Alaska seafood. One of my favorites: canned sockeye.

Contact Wesley Loy at wloy@adn.com.


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Battle over Exxon Valdez interest continues

Posted by The Highliner

Posted: July 18, 2008 - 7:01 pm

Lawyers for fishermen and other plaintiffs in the Exxon Valdez case today submitted this reply to Exxon's contention it doesn't owe $488 million in interest on top of the $507.3 million in punitive damages the U.S. Supreme Court ordered on June 25 (The Highliner, July 15).

Here's the first, very interesting paragraph of the reply:

"Exxon’s filing ... asks this Court to do something that, so far as we are aware, neither this Court nor any federal appellate court has ever done: take away all interest accrued ... from the date of an original judgment merely because an award of money damages has been reduced on appeal. The practical effect of granting Exxon’s request would be to reduce the punitive award allowed by this Court to $257.5 million in 1996 dollars, or roughly one-half of the $507.5 million this Court held the jury was entitled to award then."

As we reported in our newspaper yesterday, the high court could decide the interest question by the end of the month.


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  1     July 26, 2008 - 10:14am | minerannie

exxon

ok exxon just what do you think u owe us for loosing our jobs and lively hood? the past 10 yrs.?

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