(Anchorage, AK) – When the United States tied up 309 square miles of State land in Bristol Bay with new regulations, it broke its contract with the State, violating the Cook Inlet Land Exchange of 1976 and violating the Statehood Act of 1953. Thursday, the state of Alaska filed a complaint in the U.S. Court […]
(Dillingham, Alaska) – Monday, the United States Supreme Court announced their decision to reject the State of Alaska’s challenge of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Water Act veto of the proposed Pebble Mine. Commercial fishermen joined Bristol Bay Tribes and a majority of Alaskans in asking EPA to act to veto Pebble Mine over […]
Bristol Bay, on Alaska’s remote western coast, is the most productive salmon ecosystem in North America and home to a multi-billion-dollar fishery. To meet the needs of the Bristol Bay commercial fishing industry for a skilled, healthy, and productive workforce, Alaska Sea Grant offers a combined training that incorporates established safety best-practices with essential fishing […]
DILLINGHAM, AK — In response to comments by the U.S. EPA stating major insufficiencies in Pebble’s plan and the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS), and in the wake of last week’s news that the EPA will resume the withdrawal process for the 2014 proposed determination that would protect the headwaters of the Bristol Bay watershed, a […]