I did a little reading, and it sounds like retail price-gouging is largely responsible for the glut of salmon on the market. Retailers would rather throw away a bunch of fish than sell it at a reasonable, market-driven price. That's why you still see high prices at the store despite the paltry ex-vessel price of 50 cents per pound.

Russian salmon should be boycotted, considering that it is fueling Putin's war in Ukraine. I suppose it's finding its way to market via Chinese processors, which sounds to me like a great reason to boycott salmon from China, but hey, those middle men aren't going to stop practices that earn them higher profits, so....

I don't have much sympathy for the Alaska fishing industry, but I've always felt like they should get a lot more per pound than they do. I used to think it was the processors who controlled that (and they do, to some extent), but this shows how much they are constrained by the market.