Sentences with phrase «sockeye salmon at»

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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 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 waters.

Before pursuing my PhD, I co-produced two environmental documentaries about mining development proposed at the headwaters of the world's largest remaining sockeye salmon fishery in Alaska.

* Vital Choice wild Alaskan sockeye salmon fillets can be found at the South and Central Peoples locations.

They can be seen at Brooks River and even more so at Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park catching sockeye salmon in June and July and silver salmon in late August and September.

The bears of Katmai have watched and learned the habits of sockeye salmon well, and they have come to expect the arrival of these salmon at certain times in very specific places.

The Fraser River of Canada has runs at least four times larger, plus millions more of sockeye and other salmon species.

At the same time, ocean acidification and warmer waters caused by climate change have decimated salmon stocks, including the prized blueback sockeye, a unique salmon species intimately linked to the Quinault people and their cultural identity.

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.