October 2013
| Business World Magazine | 137
It has been said that if you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day, but if you teach himhow to
fish, you feed him for life, and just maybe, in turn, he’ll go on to create a incredible enterprise
that ultimately helps feed markets throughout the world and perfect practices that serve as a
model for the industry in terms of operational responsibility and ecological sensitivity. Such is
the case with fishermen who comprise the Alaska Seafood Cooperative.