Rather than propping up a foreign mining corporation, Alaska should look after the businesses that already anchor Bristol Bay ...
Bristol Bay lived up to its reputation as Alaska’s salmon powerhouse this year. While unusually poor returns of sockeye salmon plagued most other Alaskan waterways, state regulators are calling ...
When Melanie Brown was 10 years old, her mom decided it was time for her to begin fishing the family’s setnet site on the Naknek River in Bristol Bay. “It was exhausting,” Melanie said, remembering ...
Eight years ago, I joined a large rally led by Alaska Native leaders, Bristol Bay fishermen and our elected officials as we all gathered at Fishermen’s Terminal in Seattle to urge the Obama ...
A proposal to develop one of the world’s largest open-pit mines in a remote and pristine corner of Alaska could destroy some of America’s most valuable fisheries. A worker with the Pebble Mine project ...
This year’s catch in Alaska is expected to be among the largest on record; Pride of Bristol Bay is a reliable source for delivery in September. By Florence Fabricant The sockeye salmon harvest in the ...
When Jeffery and Christine Smith were shown the David B, an ancient Bristol Bay tug, known as a monkey boat, it appeared that every cormorant in Washington State had been pooping on it for decades.
Mr. Metrokin is president and C.E.O. of the Bristol Bay Native Corporation. ANCHORAGE — Bristol Bay is a place defined by salmon. For those of us who live and work in this region of wetlands, rivers ...
In a monumental decision that was announced today, the Environmental Protection Agency issued safeguards for the Bristol Bay watershed under section 404(c) of the Clean Water Act. The federal agency’s ...
A third of the state’s subsistence salmon harvest was caught in Bristol Bay in 2017. That’s according to a new report from the McKinley Research Group. The subsistence economy is critical to Bristol ...
Alaska biologists are forecasting another massive run of sockeye salmon in Bristol Bay this summer, raising questions in commercial fishing circles about whether the industry in the Southwest Alaska ...