Photo & Art Essay compiled by Riki Ott, Cordova, Alaska
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2. Before the oil spill, Cordova was one of the top ten seaports in the nation based on the value of seafood harvested. By 1993, Cordova had fallen to a low of 51st place with loss of hundreds of millions of dollars from spill-induced market and fisheries collapses. Well over half of the residents were involved in the fishing industry. Here, small, swift gillnetters fish the Copper River Delta and Sound.
(Pat and Rosemarie Keough, from a cooperative effort with ANF/CRWP)
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(Abbreviations used: ANF for Artists for Nature Foundation; CRWP for Copper River Watershed Project; EVOS Exxon Valdez Oil Spill)
Copyright © 1999 Survivors of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
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