ANCHORAGE, AK—Business leaders across the country today applauded the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) issuance of final science-based safeguards for the largest sockeye salmon run on the planet — Bristol Bay, Alaska, which provides 15,000 jobs each year, feeds people around the world, and draws sport anglers from across the globe to its pristine lakes, rivers and streams.

Washington, DC - This week, business leaders are in Washington D.C. to deliver a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with more than 450 businesses signed on in support of the EPA’s Clean Water Act Section 404(c) Proposed Determination for Bristol Bay’s wild salmon fishery - the largest in the world. The Businesses for Bristol Bay coalition, Conservation Alliance, and American Sustainable Business Network submitted the letter to the EPA during their recent public comment period for a new series of protections for Bristol Bay, Alaska against the proposed Pebble Mine.

(Dillingham, Alaska) — Bristol Bay is celebrating Alaska Wild Salmon Day on August 10 as a day of action on the heels of another record-breaking salmon season in Bristol Bay this year.

Businesses including Whole Foods, PCC Community Markets, Seattle Restaurant Alliance, Coastal Transportation, Patagonia, Orvis, Leader Creek Fisheries and more than 200 others urge U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to reject proposed Pebble Mine

More than 200 businesses ask EPA to permanently block the Pebble Mine