Over its lifetime, an Alaskan pink salmon can swim nearly 1,000 miles. Thanks to modern fishing supply chains, it might travel some 10,000 miles more after its death.
From the hold of a fishing boat in the Gulf of Alaska to a processing facility in Dalian, China, to a refrigerated container at the Port of Norfolk, and finally, to the seafood aisle at supermarkets from Walmart to Target, the trans-Pacific journey such fish take illustrates the extraordinary, and often counter-intuitive,
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