By MARGARET BAUMAN Image by toddraden via Flickr ALASKA JOURNAL OF COMMERCE Last updated November 29, 2009 3:40 p.m. PT ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Processors of Bristol Bay's famed wild Alaska sockeye salmon told the bay's driftnet fleet that quality must continue to improve to compete in the global marketplace with other wild and farmed salmon. "You need to understand this is not an option for you, not a choice," Scott Blake, president of Copper River Seafoods, told fishermen packed into a meeting of the Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association during the 2009 Pacific Marine Expo. "If you are to survive in this industry, you have to realize what you are competing against," Blake added. "Ultimately, it is the consumer who will tell you if you are successful. You have to give people a reason to put wild salmon on their plates and you have to be cost competitive." Blake and spokesmen for three other processors of Bristol Bay
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