#PolicyProfile: “After graduating from williamscollege with a degree in economics, I spent three summers commercial fishing in the Shelikof Strait off the western coast of Kodiak Island in Alaska. These were some of the worst fishing years that area had seen. We had weeks where we would watch huge runs of salmon swim right through our nets because the warming waters in the Pacific had stunted their growth to the point that they were too small to catch. I was also working as an economist with the stateofalaska at the time. It was a bit of an awakening to watch these salmon just swim away after fishermen spent months preparing for the season and then to go back to my job and run the analysis on the revenue impacts of the fish that people weren’t catching. That was when I realized, all the way from the fishermen who are putting food on people’s plates to the policymakers who are dealing with the security implications of melting ice caps, climate change in the North is going to deeply im...