ALT “If you’ve ever seen a trawl net when it comes in, it seems so appalling. You think, ‘You won’t have any fish left in the ocean!’ Well, it actually is sustainable, for pollock. But it’s not noble like a guy holding up one subsistence salmon.” The choice for Alaskans is difficult: crack down significantly on trawl, and you’ll limit global food supply and inflict significant damage to the state economy. In return, you’ll possibly get small gains upriver. “It’s less economic than moral or ethical,” Knapp said. “What costs are worth it for even a marginal improvement to the salmon runs? I think some people would say anything is worth it.” As a friend in Anchorage put it, “Trawling is our version of data centers.”

ALT Mr. Bolsonaro’s ability to win similar towns — rooted in agriculture and with a strong Evangelical Christian presence — contributed to his strong first round showing. He won 79 percent of towns with a large agricultural sector, a high percentage of evangelical Christians and that have less than 50,000 residents, according to an analysis by Marco Faganello, a political data scientist at Fundação Getulio Vargas, a Brazilian university. Jair Bolsonaro won 53 percent of such towns in 2022’s first round.