Ask any Alaskan who grew up in a salmon fishing community whether Pebble Mine is worth the risk. I have been fishing since I was six and sure as hell know my answer.
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Alaskan fisheries at risk due to trawlers. This affects my village along with many others. We have no salmon fishing allowed on the Yukon but trawlers can catch and dump 45,000 a year. It’s wanton waste. https://t.co/NzVVhFWjH7
The Yukon River’s fish population is in serious trouble, with thousands of pounds of halibut and king salmon lost as bycatch to bottom trawling.
The numbers are concerning, and it’s clear that a solution is needed now more than ever.
@adndotcom@AlaskaBeacon Put a moratorium on trawlers just like they did to the people along the Yukon and Kuskokwim Rivers. People in Kaltag had 6 years of no fishing for salmon and have another 6 years on a moratorium. Stop trawlers!
🚨BREAKING: Alaska GOP State Sen. Rauscher’s chief of staff, Craig Scott Valdez, arrested on federal child sex trafficking charges involving at least 12 minors. Faces life in prison if convicted, victims as young as 13. Clean house time!
This is not a partisan issue. If you hurt children, you deserve to face the harshest consequences possible.
If we want to save our fisheries and bring abundance back to Alaska, rural Alaska needs representation on the North Pacific Fishery Management Council.
Fish is a federal issue. We can only do so much to reign in trawling and bycatch at a state level without federal enforcement and the collaboration of those who manage our federal waters.
If I pull one king salmon from the Yukon, I will go to jail. Trawlers are killing our way of life in Alaska. They throw away thousands of salmon a year.
We don’t need more studies to tell us what’s happening in front of our eyes. Our fisheries are collapsing. Our fish are dying in droves because of factory trawling and bycatch. It's leaving our tables and freezers empty.
Alaskans need brave leadership ready to take this on now.
NEW: FBI Director Kash Patel touts a record-breaking run of captures, revealing the bureau brought in six of its most-wanted fugitives in a single year under President Trump's leadership.
"We captured together, under President Trump's leadership, six of the FBI's most-wanted fugitives in one calendar year. To put that in perspective, that is two more than the entirety of the prior administration."