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David Schweikert: provides half of the world's wild red salmon, accounts for nearly 14,000 jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars of…

On the recordJuly 31, 2013
provides half of the world's wild red salmon, accounts for nearly 14,000 jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars of economic activity according to EPA's conservative estimates.
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David Schweikert
Republican · Arizona

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Schweikert emphasizes the economic importance of Bristol Bay's salmon fisheries.

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