Driftnetters your immediate action is needed!
Testify in support of BOF Proposal 121 in Dillingham this December!

Proposal 121 asks the Board of Fisheries to recommend to the Alaska Legislature that the waters of the Koktuli River, Upper Talarik Creek, and Lower Talarik Creek where Pebble is located, be designated as a fish refuge. If the Legislature did so, presumably the result would be higher standards for approval of a Pebble Mine and decreased likelihood that the mine would be approved. Subsistence, sport and commercial fishing would be better protected. THERE IS NO POTENTIAL LOSS OR NEGATIVE IMPACT TO COMMERCIAL FISHERIES AS A RESULT OF REFUGE STATUS IN THIS AREA! Rather, the refuge will protect commercial fisheries resources by preventing the salmon that spawn and rear in these streams from exposure to potentially harmful mine pollution. This is not an allocation issue it will provide more fish to everyone in the long run by protecting them from potential harm.

Bristol Bay salmon account for roughly 1/3 of the total value of all Alaska salmon. It is the single most valuable salmon fishery in Alaska. Such an extraordinary fishery deserves extraordinary protection like that provided by Proposal 121.

Find all of this years proposals at: http://www.boards.adfg.state.ak.us/fishinfo/meetinfo/fprop.php

We look forward to seeing our members in Dillingham Dec. 4th -12th.