Restless Brain Syndrome: The Oil Spill and the Fishing Industry

How small fishing communities in Alaska (particularly Cordova) coped with the nation's biggest oil spill are in part related below and spans pages 197-204 of my book "Fire and Ice". Perhaps our friends in the Gulf of Mexico ... Additional visitors to Cordova kept local hotels fully booked. Since many locals went to work on the spill, mostly on boats contracted to operate boom and support services for the fleet, 20 percent of the town's labor force relocated to the Sound. ...