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LOCAL JUNEAU EMPIRE 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.

The fish that lays the Golden Egg

 <B>Processing eggs:</B> Sean Fansler takes chum salmon roe out of brine water to drain and cure at Northern Keta Caviar. Roe
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Processing eggs: Sean Fansler takes chum salmon roe out of brine water to drain and cure at Northern Keta Caviar. Roe "drives a lot of the economics of the salmon business," according to Tom Sunderland, marketing director for Seattle-based Ocean Beauty Seafoods Inc.
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