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The Environmental Protection Agency announced last week that it is extending its comment period for proposed restrictions on mining of the Pebble deposit. The comment period was originally set to end in July. Now, it will continue for two more months to September 6.
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Izzy Ross
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KDLG
Only minor injuries were reported after the float plane, operated by Newhalen Lodge, crashed into the lake. Troopers in Fairbanks and Dillingham, the Village of Kokhanok and lodges in the area worked together to rescue the passengers by skiff and bring them to the village clinic.
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KDLG
Alaska Interagency Coordination Center
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Division of Forestry
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In this season's first episode of Waypoints Radio, BBRSDA Program Manager Frances Bursch speaks with Seafood Analytics about the association's quality device reader project this summer.
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Peter Pan Seafoods announced this weekend it is boosting the price of sockeye salmon from $1.00 to $1.15 per pound. The announcement comes a little more than a week after the company announced the starting price.
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The Nushagak River's sockeye escapement is now more than double its upper goal. Both the Nushagak and Egegik’s fleets hauled in huge harvests — Egegik’s fleet caught over 900,000 sockeye on Monday. Ugashik more than doubled its total harvest and had some hefty drift deliveries.
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The Bristol Bay region has seen multiple wildfires this month. The Iowithla River fire has expanded to more than 36,600 acres over the last three days and is 10.5 miles northeast of Dillingham.
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Welcome to the Bristol Bay Fisheries Report! A huge push of salmon swam up the Wood River on Sunday, putting Nushagak District fishermen on short notice. Egegik fishermen hauled in around 44,000 fish. While we wait on numbers from the counting towers, some seafood processing companies aren’t waiting to dole out their base prices.
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The iowithla river fire near Dillingham is now no longer growing towards the community according to an update from the Alaska interagency coordination center on Saturday. It was last logged at 27,500 acres and was about 9 miles from the town before fire boss planes dropped water on the flames to stop its growth.
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Peter Pan announced the 2022 base price ahead of the fishing season. It's following a precedent it set last year, when it became the first major company in decades to tell fishermen what they would get paid before the season started. Company officials say this year's $1.00 base price will likely increase, but some fishermen are frustrated.
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Where to find COVID testing, vaccines and boosters in Naknek and Dillingham
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The Iowithla River fire is now only 9.3 miles from Dillingham. One plane was dispatched Tuesday to douse the flames. However, smoke prevented the plane from flying to the area, according to an update from the Alaska Interagency Coordination Center.
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Several wildfires have spread across the Bristol Bay region within the last week. At least seven have burned over 3,000 acres each, according to the Alaska Interagency Coordination Center.
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