to the 7,200 human residents of Southern Alaska. The fishing port at Cordova was the nation's seventh most lucrative fishing harbor the year before the spill. It averaged $44 million in revenue each year. Four years after the spill in 1993, it slipped to number 51 with earnings down $19 million from 1988. The city also faced other severe losses. A former mayor committed suicide, and the city has gone through six mental health directors. (Murphy E1)
             Clean up efforts were almost as massive as
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