HABITAT= MONEY. Here’s some fig­ures on how much your clean and wild envi­ron­ment can make, every year from com­mer­cial fishing.

Taken from Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game’s Total Com­mer­cial Salmon Har­vest by species on a 10 year aver­age. (Fish­eries Man­age­ment Report No. 10–55  Appen­dix A)

Prices based on 10 year aver­ages from proces­sors, (1988–2009) using per species, per pound (not includ­ing post sea­son bonuses).  Approx­i­mate total weights based on species averages.

Bering River, of which Car­bon Moun­tain and Bering River Coal Fields are at headwaters.

Bering River District:

• King Salmon– $9,103
• Red Salmon– $195,482
• Coho Salmon– $337,344
• Pink Salmon– $1040
• Chum Salmon– $28
• Total Annual Aver­age Dol­lar Amount– $542,997

Cop­per River District:

• King Salmon– $3,330,810
• Red Salmon– $13,192,206
• Coho Salmon– $2,062,620
• Pink Salmon– $21,510
• Chum Salmon– $18,522
• Total Annual Aver­age Dol­lar Amount– $18,625,668

Amount of Dol­lar Worth– Area E Drift Per­mit as of May 2011=  $180,000– $190,000

Com­mer­cial fish­er­men and other stake­hold­ers of the North Gulf Coast and Cop­per River Area have a vested inter­est in clean, untouched habi­tat and wilder­ness.  Every year the salmon come back to be caught.  Help their spawn­ing grounds be safe from large devel­op­ments on the Cop­per River and the Cop­per River Delta.  Read the sec­tions on Shep­ard Point/Carbon Moun­tain and the Trans Alaskan Pipeline on this web­site to see whats going on.