The Alaskan Salmon Industry Faces Off Against COVID-19

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Coronavirus recently arrived in Bristol Bay, Alaska, and some local leaders want to cancel the multi-million-dollar sockeye salmon harvest entirely.

. Along with the other salmon fisheries in Bristol Bay, it returns an annual $14.7 million to local governments and employs a third of the residents in the largely indigenous communities. Norman Van Vactor, President and CEO of the Bristol Bay Economic Development Corporation , estimates that, all totaled, salmon fishing brings up to $200 million into the region each year.

Food & Wine is partnering with Southern Smoke Foundation to help raise money for restaurant workers around the country who are in crisis. Clark’s position reflects the inadequacy of local hospital resources. “If people in Seattle and New York are dying because of an overloaded healthcare system, imagine a region the size of Ohio with just 12 hospital beds equipped for oxygen, no ICU, limited medevac capacity, and two ventilators,” Hurley says.

For its part, the Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association, which represents the fleet, “supports the use of testing, quarantines, and any other actionable tactics and best practices that protect the health of all local community members and industry stakeholders,” says BBRSDA marketing director Lilani Dunn. To that end, the organization

That same day, the Alaska salmon fishery had its first case of COVID-19 when an incoming worker at the Ocean Beauty Seafoods plant near the Copper River, 300 miles east of Bristol Bay, tested positive. They were asymptomatic and had tested negative in pre-arrival screening beforehand.

 

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