The Bay Pac

It turned the fresh water for 100s of miles around into Sulfuric Acid.
People could only get drinking water from covered fresh water springs.
20- 100s of feet of ash in Naknek Lakes area.
Which is now home to one of the biggest wild salmon returns every year on this Earth.

HA!!
This picture is no where NEAR Pebble.
Heck it isnt even in the Iliamna Lake area! Ha!!
Ya Ya ya…. Save this region for “sportsmen” in their multi million dollar airplanes to fly here from Texas for the day then fly back.
Meanwhile the locals can not afford a plane ticket to Anchorage to get a bad tooth fixed.
( let them eat cake?)

Hi ho, hi ho, it’s back to court we go.

Trout Unlimited is stepping back onto the legal battlefield to defend Bristol Bay from Pebble Partnerships’ latest lawsuit. Last month, Pebble and its allies filed a flurry of lawsuits against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency intent on overturning the Clean Water Act safeguards that block Pebble Mine. Today, TU, with help from our legal team Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP [Official] has intervened in Pebble Partnership’s lawsuit. We will do whatever it takes to ensure Bristol Bay has a vibrant and fish-filled future.

These lawsuits will take time to trickle through the court system. The businesses and people of Bristol Bay deserve certainty, which is why we also remain committed to durable safeguards for Bristol Bay. The recently introduced “Bristol Bay Protection Act” would be a great step towards permanent protections. Take action here to support this bill! - https://www.savebristolbay.org/take-action



Photo by Ben Knight

1991 year of Solidarity on the Entire State
Of Alaska fishing grounds.
The year that the SCABS broke the back of the BB fishery.
The Bristol Bay fleet settled for .77 cents a pound.
NOBODY was happy with that price.
Which , when adjusted for inflation, is over Double what is being offered now.
To reverse the .80 of today to 1991? That would be .35 cents back then.
Canneries would have been infernos if that price was even mouthed during that time.

And BB is getting a Whopping .80-1.10…yay.

Seeing a little excitement on the .80 - 1.10 posted by a processor.
A processor that charges fishermen a Buy In of 25.000.00$s to take their fish.
In the late 80s fishermen were receiving a 1.00 - 1.30 per pound. When adjusted for inflation those prices would be 2.00 -2.20 per pound today.
When the 1.10 that is posted this year is reversed to what tidays 1.10 would have been in the late 80s? That would be .43 cents. A price that NOBODY would have fished for back then. This was for For Dry Boats. No RSW nor Slush Bags back then.
Didnt bother to check what todays .80 cents would have been in “89. That would be too Depressing.
Fishermen produce the product. No processor can operate with out fish.
Most fishermen have large debt. So the Processors use this debt as a very wicked and efficient tool.
Idk what the answers are.
Yet with the prices today being a lot less then in the past.
At amounts No One would fish for back then????
Maybe the orgs such as BBRSDA & ASMI should get off their butts and start marketing better.
Or???
The Fishermen can sit on their Butts and have the Procesdors operate on air. Or operate on the few fish that SCABs can produce in front of thier buddies that are sitting it out.

Nuts.

Column: The salmon industry faces extinction — not because of drought, but politics and government policies State and federal government policies that favor farms have done far more damage to the salmon fishery than drought, another sign that California's water rights need rethinking.

Maybe he never bingoed ;-(

Wasilla bingo-hall worker followed woman home to steal her winnings, troopers say Troopers say Big Valley Bingo employee Jeremy McMillan, 36, stole a purse containing the woman's winnings Wednesday night.

If they are getting “free” fishing trips,
Is it truly Pro Bono?
Not only free trips but probably paid for hosted by a non local entity that only comes up during the Summer to R**e The Resources .

Is dumping 1,000,000,000 pounds of fish every 7 years wanton waste?

Just. Wondering.

Joe Bidens thriving economy.
Bidenomics at work?

“That’s $14.14 per hour. And if the trip ends up taking an extra 90 minutes, which happens easily on these multileg journeys especially in winter, the rate would be $12.12 per hour. Extra pay only kicks in when the delay is more than two hours.”

With some flight attendants on welfare, Alaska Airlines faces contract fight The pressure from high inflation since COVID-19 battered the economy has caused a crisis among low-wage earners. Flight attendants who had been just getting by now find the job unsustainable.

The horrors of government dependency after all our other means of making a living are taken away , made illegal or denied.

Over 12,000 Alaskans are waiting on critical food aid as state’s new food stamp backlog swells The Alaska Division of Public Assistance fell out of compliance with federal law in late November as it tried to stem the latest backlog, which a top official described as “a growing crisis.”

Rodger That , Bryce Edgmon?

Some : PFDcuts are needed to "help" .

But what PFDcuts 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 do is take $$ from and use them instead to shield the Top20% from paying their share of govt costs.

They're a . https://alaskalandmine.com/landmines/brad-keithleys-chart-of-the-week-the-100000-dividend/

The Bow Chaser;-)