Fun Facts I learned today:
*Out of 686,293 people, only 6,000 of those people are employed by the mining industry.
•Out of 686, 293, 65,000 people are employed by the fishing industry.
•Bristol Bay brings in 65 million dollars for the state in sports fishing revenue alone and 95 million dollars for the state in commercial fishing.
•Bristol Bay brings in 65 million dollars for the state in sports fishing revenue alone.
•The state's revenue from commercial fishing is 11.2 billion dollars
 


Comments

Megan McBride

10/05/2009 18:32:47

Wow! I didn't know that fishing employs over 10 times the number of people that mining does! These are awesome statistics!

 

Megan McBride

10/05/2009 18:36:58

Did you all hear about the Bristol Bay Energy Summit? More jobs that support the fishing industry, rather than threatening it:

The Bristol Bay energy summit will take place Oct. 8-10 at Dillingham Middle School gym.

http://www.bbna.com/announcements/Bristol-Bay-Energy-Summit-Flyer2009.pdf

 

Jessie Dawn

10/20/2009 17:16:01

These are very good points! I think that the Pebble would ruin the state if let thru. Because like you stated lots of money is brought in by fishing which is a big part of Alaska. And the mine is not going to last forever or give people jobs for ever. leaving a lot of people with no job when the Pebble mine is done or over. And do you think these people can just go back to fishing for money? NO, and lots of the people who come out of state to see Alaska and go commercial fishing cant. Leaving so many people jobless, some jobs that WILL be lost are, all the 50 odd jobs at the canaries per the 70 that are probably in Alaska. that amounts to 3500 jobs lost in Alaska to the canaries alone.

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