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 across America that rely on Alaska’s wild salmon have joined together to protect Bristol Bay, Alaska’s great salmon fishery, by contributing a portion of sales to the Alaska Wild Salmon Fund. Every dollar donated supports Alaskan nonprofit organizations working to protect Bristol Bay from the proposed Pebble Mine. To learn more about the Pebble Mine and Bristol Bay visit Defend Bristol Bay.
Our businesses partners include:
The most urgent threat to Alaska’s wild salmon is the proposed Pebble Mine. The Army Corps of Engineers is leading a flawed permitting process and is expected to release the Final Environmental Impact State in the next few weeks.
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 all the way to the halls of Congress.
The Fund is supporting the United Tribes of Bristol Bay, SalmonState and Alaska Center Education Fund to protect Bristol Bay from the Pebble Mine. Please join us in this effort.
Contact
Matt Rafferty – Project Director
matt@alaskaventure.org
Alaska Wild Salmon Fund
c/o The Boardroom
721 Depot Drive
Anchorage, AK 99501