“We absolutely do feel safer,” one plant manager said about having overdose prevention resources on hand.
Fisheries
Scientists examine Gulf of Alaska sea floor to see effects of bottom trawling
Scientists from the conservation group Oceana, which is based in Juneau, spent eight days aboard a research vessel circumnavigating the Kodiak archipelago.
Amid poor chum runs, Trident’s Wrangell plant will stay shuttered for a third year
That leaves one fish processor operating on Wrangell Island.
As EPA moves to block mining at the Pebble deposit, mine supporters and opponents look to details
The EPA said mining the Pebble deposit would result in unacceptable loss of salmon habitat, both at the site and further downstream.
The U.S. Has Spent More Than $2 Billion on a Plan to Save Salmon. The Fish Are Vanishing Anyway.
The U.S. government promised Native tribes in the Pacific Northwest that they could keep fishing as they’d always done. But instead of preserving wild salmon, it propped up a failing system of hatcheries. Now, that system is falling apart.
Environmental Protection Agency proposes veto of Pebble Mine to protect salmon-rich Bristol Bay
The EPA announced the proposed ban Wednesday morning, using its authority under a section of the Clean Water Act.