Byline: -- Associated Press
PRINCE RUPERT, British Columbia -- After blockading an Alaska-bound ferry in port for three days, angry Canadian salmon fishermen let it continue north late Monday.
The Malaspina, with 135 passengers and 88 vehicles on board, gave three long blasts of its horn and pulled away shortly after 10 p.m. Pacific time.
The fishermen are angered by a three-year impasse in talks on a new salmon fishing treaty between the United States and Canada. They accuse Alaskans of overfishing and cutting into the numbers of sockeye …

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