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About Save Bristol Bay
Trout Unlimited’s Alaska Program works to preserve, protect and restore wild salmon and trout populations throughout Alaska. Through sound scientific data, strong grassroots outreach and advocacy, and hands-on involvement in conservation projects we protect some of the most pristine and prized rivers on the planet, restore those that need some help, and engage the next generation of coldwater stewards in Alaska’s natural heritage.
April 2010
Find Us on the Kenai Peninsula This Weekend at the Sports and Recreation Show
Trout Unlimited Alaska and the Resource Renewable Coalition will be in Soldotna this weekend for the Kenai Sports and Recreation Trade Show. We’ll be giving away a pair of Orvis River Guard wading boots, so make sure you stop by and enter to win.
TU Applauds Call for Federal Protection of BLM Lands Near Pebble
Trout Unlimited and the Sportsman’s Alliance for Alaska, along with nearly 300 hunting and fishing groups, today welcomed news that the current and former chairmen of the House Interior Appropriations Committee have urged the Bureau of Land Management to protect federal lands near Bristol Bay, Alaska, from hard rock mining.
Chairman Jim Moran (D-VA) and former committee Chairman Norm Dicks (D-Wash.) have asked the Bureau of Land Management to protect 1.1 million acres near Bristol Bay, home to the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery.
Alaskans Send Message to Anglo American Despite Volcano Disruption
Anglo American, the multi-national mining company funding exploration and development of the Pebble prospect just north west of Lake Iliamna, and upstream from my home in Bristol Bay, is holding its shareholder meeting in London, on Thursday, April 22, 2010.
Scrumptious Salmon Served at Kodiak ComFish; Protection Message Too
Hundreds of people, many of them commercial fishermen with ties to Bristol Bay, stopped by our booth last week at Kodiak ComFish last week, the largest commercial fishing trade show in Alaska. Many expressed ardent support for Trout Unlimited’s efforts to protect Bristol Bay wild salmon from proposed large-scale mining.
“It was a great turnout. So many people stopped by and wanted to find out how they can get involved in the Save Bristol Bay campaign. It was truly inspiring,” said TU Outreach Director, Nelli Williams.
Icelandic Volcano Scuttles Plan for London Protest
As you've probably heard by now, the ash cloud from an erupting volcano in Iceland has grounded most air travel in and out of Europe so plans by an Alaska delegation to protest at Anglo American's annual meeting in London this Thursday have changed. Only one member of the delegation, Verner Wilson of Nunamta Aulukestai, managed to get to London before most flights were canceled.
Alaska Delegation Heads to London to Protest at Anglo American Meeting
A delegation of Alaskans is heading to London this weekend to protest at Anglo American's annual shareholder meeting on Thursday. As they did last year, the delegates will voice their opposition to Anglo's proposed Pebble mine amid the Kvichak and Nushagak drainages in the Bristol Bay watershed. Ironically, the mine company's meeting is being held on Earth Day, April 22. Read more about the trip.
Field and Stream Blog Blasts Pebble Partnership CEO Over "Big Deal" Comment
The popular outdoors magazine, Field and Stream, took Pebble Partnership CEO John Shively to task for dismissing news this week that the nation's second largest jewelry retailer has decided to boycott the proposed open-pit mine near Bristol Bay. You may have seen Shively's comment about the decision by Zale Corp.
Zale Corp. Vows Not to Source Gold from Pebble
The nation’s second largest jewelry retailer announced on Monday that it will not buy gold from the proposed Pebble mine near Bristol Bay, Alaska. Zale Corp. has joined a growing list of jewelers that support making the Bristol Bay watershed a mining-free zone. Bristol Bay hosts some of the world’s biggest and finest wild salmon runs but it faces major threats from large-scale mining proposals, namely the gigantic Pebble project.
Read about Zale’s announcement and reaction from Pebble’s proposed developers in this Associated Press story.
Trout Magazine and Video Feature New Salmon Research in Bristol Bay
Trout Magazine has an article and a video in the Spring 2010 issue that features the work of fisheries biologist Sarah O'Neal, who spent last summer documenting the presence of juvenile salmon in the Bristol Bay watershed. Many anadromous streams and rivers in Alaska are undocumented, meaning that while they're thought to contain salmon, they're not on the official list called the Anadromous Waters Catalogue. Once a water body is in the catalogue it receives more protection from development that it otherwise would.
Time to Gear up for Kodiak Commercial Fishing Convention
