{"id":11518,"date":"2015-08-27T07:19:38","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T12:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11518"},"modified":"2015-08-27T07:19:38","modified_gmt":"2015-08-27T12:19:38","slug":"living-downstream-of-b-c-s-gold-rush-alaskas-fishermen-fear-end-of-last-wild-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=11518","title":{"rendered":"Living Downstream of B.C.\u2019s Gold Rush: Alaska\u2019s Fishermen Fear End of \u2018Last Wild Frontier\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Living Downstream of B.C.\u2019s Gold Rush: Alaska\u2019s Fishermen Fear End of \u2018Last Wild Frontier\u2019<\/a><\/h3>\n

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No fish in the car, warned the rental car attendant at Juneau airport, with the weary tone of someone who had cleaned too many fish guts out of returned vehicles. It was a warning underlined by signs in hotels pleading with guests not to clean fish in the hotel\u00a0bathrooms.<\/p>\n

Fishing is in the\u00a0DNA<\/span>\u00a0of Southeast Alaskans, not only as a sport and common way of filling the freezer, but also as a driver of the state economy. So it is not surprising that the perceived threat presented by a\u00a0rush of mine applications on the\u00a0B.C.<\/span>\u00a0side of the border<\/a>\u00a0has brought together diverse groups who want\u00a0B.C.<\/span>\u00a0to give Alaska an equal seat at the decision-making table and to have the issue referred for review to the\u00a0International Joint Commission<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>I can\u2019t conceive of not being able to fish for salmon. The grief would be too much to fathom,\u201d said Heather Hardcastle, co-owner of Taku River Reds who has been commercial fishing for most of her\u00a0life.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>We share these waters and we share these fish. There has to be an international solution,\u201d she\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Jill Weitz, Trout Unlimited outreach coordinator, wonders why Canadians are not taking the risk of pollution from the mines more\u00a0seriously.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>This is one of the largest king salmon runs in Southeast Alaska. How is this not significant?\u201d she asked, looking over the side of a boat into the waters of Taku\u00a0Inlet.<\/p>\n

It is a cruel joke that, for the second time in history, the richest minerals in the world have been found in the richest salmon habitat in the world, said Lindsey Bloom, as her gillnet dried in front of her Juneau\u00a0home<\/p>\n

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