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Alaska Dispatch News3y
More than 70 million sockeye salmon expected in Bristol Bay next year, potentially busting this year’s record
the 2021 run of 66.1 million fish was also 32% above the state’s preseason forecast and the latest in a string of very strong sockeye returns Bristol Bay, which is the largest commercial sockeye ...
Alaska Dispatch News1y
After two-year closure, lucrative Bristol Bay red king crab fishery reopens
The fishery closed in 2021 for the first time in more than 25 ... commercially harvested crab and are mainly caught in Bristol Bay. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...
Alaska Public Media3y
‘More hungry mouths’: Bristol Bay sockeye are abundant but shrinking
Bristol Bay is home to the largest sockeye run on the ... Last year’s average weight for sockeye was 5.1 pounds. The 2021 average was just 4.5 pounds, according to the McKinley Research Group.
The Atlantic3y
In One Place, for One Fish, Climate Change May Be a Boon
Everyone dug in. Here in southwestern Alaska’s Bristol Bay, the Bandle family has fished by setnet for nearly 40 years, anchoring nets hundreds of feet long on the beach, then stretching them ...
The Washington Post3y
EPA to protect Alaska’s Bristol Bay, blocking major gold mine
The Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday that it would restore protections for Alaska’s Bristol Bay, blocking the construction of a massive and controversial gold mine near the world ...
CNN3y
EPA moves to block controversial mine that threatened salmon habitat in Alaska
In 2014, after three years of peer-reviewed study, the Obama administration’s EPA invoked a rarely used provision of the Clean Water Act to try to protect Bristol Bay after finding that a mine ...
The New York Times3y
Biden Administration Moves to Protect Alaska’s Bristol Bay
By Lisa Friedman WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Thursday took the first steps that would allow it to begin the process of protecting Alaska’s pristine Bristol Bay, one of the world ...
The Washington Post3y
Alaska Native corporation to protect its land, dealing blow to massive gold mine project
Now 66, Thiele is a board member of the Pedro Bay Corp., an Alaska Native group that owns land near Bristol Bay, the site of the most prolific sockeye fishery in the world. It is also the precise ...
Juneau Empire3y
Pride of Bristol Bay: The brown bears of Bristol Bay and Alaska Peninsula
There’s also a direct correlation between Bristol Bay’s incredible run of salmon—a record breaking 66 million sockeye returned in 2021 and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s forecast ...
NBC News2y
EPA blocks mine project that threatened crucial Alaskan salmon runs
Bristol Bay salmon fisheries contribute more than $2 billion to the U.S. economy and more than 15,000 jobs, according to a 2021 McKinley report prepared for the Bristol Bay Defense Fund ...
Roll Call2y
EPA blocks mine in Alaska’s Bristol Bay watershed
A proposed gold and copper mine in Alaska’s Bristol Bay watershed was vetoed by the ... announced it would revisit the proposed veto in 2021, and its finalization appeared likely after EPA ...