{"id":960,"date":"2014-08-19T10:45:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T17:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smseafoodmarket.com\/?p=960"},"modified":"2014-08-19T10:45:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T17:45:35","slug":"help-protect-bristol-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smseafoodmarket.com\/help-protect-bristol-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"Help Protect Bristol Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association (BBRSDA) has some important questions to ask you:<\/p>\n
If you answered \u201cyes\u201d to any of those questions, then we think you\u2019re probably interested in taking a few minutes to help protect the millions of sockeye salmon that depend on Bristol Bay (along with more than 14,000 people\u2019s jobs) from the threat of development. And not just any kind of development – the largest open-pit mine in North America<\/strong><\/em>, generating up to 10 billion tons of waste and threatening our nation’s largest sockeye salmon fishery.<\/p>\n On July 18th, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a draft set of restrictions designed to protect Bristol Bay’s salmon from the harmful impacts of large-scale mining (in particular the proposed Pebble Mine). They are accepting public comments between now and\u00a0September 19th\u00a0– you can use this easy method to send a public comment to the EPA. But don\u2019t delay – they will only be taking public comments on the proposal until September 19.<\/p>\n The BBRSDA has a ton of useful information on their website<\/a><\/strong> along with an easy way to send comments to the EPA<\/a><\/strong>. \u00a0We hope you’ll join us in the fight to protect this amazing natural resource. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association (BBRSDA) has some important questions to ask you: Do you eat wild, sustainable seafood? Do you dream of going to Alaska and\/or have you already been to the Last Frontier? Do you believe that wild salmon matter and are worth protecting for future generations? If you answered \u201cyes\u201d to any of those questions, … <\/p>\n