Why and Why Now: Alaska is our last chance to get salmon conservation right. Alaska is the only remaining Salmon State in the nation – and we plan to keep it that way. Growing threats to Alaska’s salmon habitat, like renewed momentum on the Pebble Mine, requires that we all protect our wild salmon habitat and clean water resources before it’s too late.
Businesses throughout the Pacific Northwest and beyond joined together during the peak of the salmon season to protect Bristol Bay, Alaska’s great salmon fishery. Participating businesses encouraged customers to buy Bristol Bay salmon to help save them – and donated a portion of their sales to the Alaska Wild Salmon Fund. Every dollar donated supported Alaskan nonprofit organizations working to protect Bristol Bay from the proposed Pebble Mine. To learn more about the Pebble Mine and Bristol Bay visit: www.savebristolbay.org.
Participating businesses include:
The most urgent threat to Alaska’s wild salmon is the proposed Pebble Mine. The Army Corps of Engineers is preparing the Environmental Impact Statement, which will be released for public comment in January 2019.
In response, the Alaska Wild Salmon Fund invested resources to protect Bristol Bay, and 50% of the world’s sockeye salmon that return here to spawn and rear, from the Pebble Mine. Pebble is the wrong mine in the wrong place and the effort to stop it continues, with the Fund supporting outreach efforts being conducted in Alaska.
Contact
Matt Rafferty – Project Director
matt@alaskaventure.org
Alaska Wild Salmon Fund
c/o The Boardroom
721 W 1st Ave
Anchorage, AK 99501