I appreciate the senator’s work to protect the very valuable Bristol Bay sockeye salmon and other species potentially in harm’s way of the proposed Pebble Mine.
Bristol Bay’s resources – including up to 60 million salmon that return there every year – are of international importance, with economic, health, environmental, and cultural implications.
Like many international fishery issues, including Norwegian-owned Atlantic salmon feedlots in British Columbia and restoring Pacific salmon and steelhead in Washington’s rivers (Chehalis, Elwha, Snake and more), protecting Bristol Bay sockeye salmon is vitally important to many in Washington who value our natural resources-based lifestyle.
I hope other politicians will follow Cantwell’s leadership on this issue and recognize the vital role Bristol Bay plays in the American economy.
