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Article: Wild & free: the story of Alaskan salmon: fisherman Robert Lebovic shares wild tales of this healthy fish.
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- New Life Journal
- Article date:
- December 1, 2003
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If you look at a map of Alaska, to the west of Anchorage, in the Bering Sea is Bristol Bay. It's a remote region of small Yu'pic Eskimo villages, hundreds of miles from the nearest road. It's an area of tundra and lakes with the volcanic spine of the Alaskan peninsula visible in the distance. During the short summers, the waters of the great rivers there, the Kvichak, Nushagak, Egegik and Ugashik teem with life. It's the world as it once was, where brown bears and walrus outnumber people, where rivers turn red with spawning sockeyes, where you can see hundreds of while Beluga whales chasing the salmon and pods of Orcas hunting the belugas. Half of the world's sockeye ...