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This time of year, a few ravaged chum females are still wandering up local streams to spawn. Their flesh is nearly worthless, but their eggs, at least outside Alaska, are liquid gold.
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The fish that lays the Golden Egg
The fish that lays the Golden Egg
David Sheakley / Juneau Empire
Sorting roe out: Mark Heironymus grades the raw salmon egg sacks into grade one and two at Northern Keta Caviar.
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