

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.

