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The Pebble Mine site lies on state land in the heart of WORLD CLASS TROUT and SALMON STREAMS,
a land veined with brooks and rivulets, riddled with pools and puddles.
In addition, Bristol Bay is home to the WORLD’S LARGEST commercial
wild salmon fishery; many of those fish spawn in the Kvichak and other
tributaries in the Iliamna Lake area.While Pebble directly threatens the health of our Bristol Bay
fisheries, equally disturbing is the Federal Bureau of Land Management
and Department of the Interior’s proposed land management plan which
recommends opening over a million acres of pristine federal wild lands
in Bristol Bay to hard rock mining, a dangerous move for fish and people
living in the region. Not only would the planned “Bristol Bay Mining
District” mar the region’s remarkably wild and beautiful landscape, but
it risks grave consequences for the health of all living things
downstream.The harvest and processing of Bristol Bay fish generates nearly $320 million a year and provides jobs forsome 12,500 people. Sport fishermen spend nearly $60 million a year to experience the prize fishing in this area.Year after year, Bristol Bay produces MILLIONS OF FISH worth hundreds of millions of dollars, like no other place in the world.
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