ANCHORAGE, AK – Trout Unlimited and United Tribes of Bristol Bay will host a Protect Bristol Bay townhall next week: Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017. The event will include an update on the efforts against the Pebble Mine from a diverse group of speakers, and will clarify the science and facts behind Pebble’s latest statements. Since […]
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) is forecasting the return of 51.28 million sockeye salmon into Bristol Bay in the summer of 2018, which would allow for a potential harvest of nearly 38 million reds in Bristol Bay and 1.49 million fish in the South Peninsula. A Bristol Bay harvest of that size […]
Commercial harvesters of Bristol Bay red king crab have been given a quota of 6.6 million pounds for the fishery that opens at noon on Oct. 15 – down 22 percent from the 2016-2017 quota. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game also announced on Oct. 3 closures this season of the Pribilof district red […]
DILLINGHAM, AK – The Environmental Protection Agency will host public hearings this month as part of its consideration of whether to withdraw protections for Bristol Bay’s watershed and world-class fishery. Following last year’s election and the appointment of new EPA leadership, the Pebble Limited Partnership and EPA brokered a deal which may rollback the proposed […]