Sentences with phrase «bay sockeye»

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game carefully manages the Bristol Bay sockeye salmon fishery to ensure that enough fish are allowed to escape the fishery and run up river to sustain the population.

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«Bristol Bay is home to the world's largest runs of sockeye salmon with returns averaging 37.5 million annually and having been as high as 60 million.»

Scientists at the University of Washington in Seattle's (U.W.) School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences think they know why Bristol Bay is so productive year after year: Several hundred discrete populations of sockeye salmon inhabit the network of rivers and lakes that empty into the bay, and this tremendous population diversity buffers the entire fishery against the vicissitudes of the environmeBay is so productive year after year: Several hundred discrete populations of sockeye salmon inhabit the network of rivers and lakes that empty into the bay, and this tremendous population diversity buffers the entire fishery against the vicissitudes of the environmebay, and this tremendous population diversity buffers the entire fishery against the vicissitudes of the environment.

For at least 50 years Alaska's Bristol Bay has been one of the most valuable fisheries in the U.S.. On average, fishermen net about 25 million sockeye salmon annually in the bay's chilly wateBay has been one of the most valuable fisheries in the U.S.. On average, fishermen net about 25 million sockeye salmon annually in the bay's chilly watebay's chilly waters.

The mine proposed at the headwaters of Bristol Bay is projected to be the largest in North America, generating billions of tons of mine waste and industrializing important salmon habitat in the heart of the world's last great wild sockeye salmon fishery.