British Columbia Mines Minister Bill Bennett says tailings dams can be a safe part of his province’s mines.
Fisheries
Fish waste-to-compost project starting in Dillingham this month
Around this time next year, Dillingham gardeners should have access to compost made from the waste of locally caught salmon. A grant-funded project is taking off at the local landfill in August, and it will need some good fish waste to get going.
Slow fall chum run leaves Yukon smokehouses empty
Slow fall chum runs have kept subsistence fisherman from being too active on the Yukon River this past week, but as Chinook continue crossing the border, officials say their numbers are well above escapement goals.
Company promoting genetically engineered salmon reports net losses for first half of 2015
The biotech company has developed a genetically modified salmon that can be farmed to market size in half the time of conventional wild or farmed salmon.
Americans Are On The Hook For Seafood Consumption
Nutritionists say the vast majority of Americans don’t eat the two recommended servings of seafood a week. What to do about it? Educate people on how to fit more fish in to their diet.
Four Western Alaska communities to receive large halibut donation after dismal walrus harvest
Four communities affected by this spring’s poor walrus harvest will soon receive 10,000 pounds of halibut from a nonprofit that supplies seafood to hunger-relief efforts.