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  • Alaska is the Salmon State — the last best place for wild salmon and the ways of life they make possible.

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  • The same kinds of shortsighted destruction that eradicated salmon in the Lower 48 threaten Alaska's wild salmon rivers.

  • Climate change is wreaking havoc at sea and in freshwater.

  • Policies that fail to put fish and people first are failing Alaskans.

  • We work with partners across the state to keep Alaska a place wild salmon and the people who depend on them thrive.

  • From the proposed Pebble Mine, which threatens the planet's largest sockeye salmon run

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  • To the transboundary rivers flowing from Canada into Southeast Alaska's coastal rainforest

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  • To communities throughout Southeast Alaska and the Tongass National Forest

  • We work to keep Alaska's wild salmon and the jobs, sustenance, and ways of life they make possible thriving for years to come.

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Wild salmon bring us together.

Wild salmon power our economy, sustain our communities, underpin traditions, and fill our bellies.

At SalmonState, we work to keep Alaska a place wild salmon and the people who depend on them thrive.

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Stop Wasteful Bycatch

Over the last 10 years, trawlers have bycaught and largely discarded 141 million pounds of salmon, crab, halibut and other species each year on average. While nearly every other sector of the Bering Sea based fishery suffers, the largest, most wasteful one continues full steam ahead. This must change.

Salmon Beyond Borders

The transboundary Taku, Stikine and Unuk rivers flowing from the glaciated, boreal forest of British Columbia, Canada into Southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest are home to all five species of wild Pacific salmon and are vital to our economy and ways of life. Their headwaters are also home to a massive, industrialized Gold Rush, and Alaskans just miles downstream have no meaningful voice.

Lake Creek

Defend the West Su

A proposed 100-mile-long road by an irresponsible state agency is a bad idea, and Alaskans who hunt, fish, and rely on the West Su for their livelihoods are speaking up.

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Southeast Alaska

Southeast Alaska’s 35 communities are part of the world’s largest temperate rainforest, a place salmon feed even the trees. We work with Southeast residents, leaders and organizations embracing sustainable, locally-led, restorative paths forward.

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Salmon Habitat Information Program (SHIP)

SHIP connects fishermen to information, to policy-makers, and to ways to make a difference.

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Climate change

Changing weather patterns, temperatures, landscapes and food webs are are impacting Alaska’s wild salmon. We are working with people across the state to bring attention to their lived experiences and to advocate for action.

Tad Fujioka on the F/V Sakura, a Southeast Alaska troller. Photo by Bethany Goodrich

Stand with Southeast Alaska Fishing Families

Southeast Alaska trollers — conservation-minded, community-based hook and line family fishermen with small boats and a big economic impact in Southeast Alaska — are being targeted by a misguided lawsuit. We stand with them.