fishing

Throughout Alaska, salmon are essential to both wildlife and people.  Interwoven into cultures, economies, and ecosystems, they’re also critical to forests like the 16.7 million-acre Tongass National Forest in Juneau. The country’s largest and most unique, it’s made up of yellow and western red cedar, western hemlock, and Sitka spruce as part of the largest…

Alaskan fisheries produce about half the fish caught in the U.S. and they’re often ranked among the best-managed and most sustainable on the planet.  The fisheries are managed for sustainability while keeping the long-term health of the stocks a top priority ever since statehood in 1959, mandated by the state’s Constitution. Seafood species have managed…