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Commercial fishing for Bristol Bay's world-class salmon has been going on for 125 years (1884-2009), and in Peter Pan Cannery's Net Loft in Dillingham, AK, they are celebrating that anniversary with a new museum exhibit called "Sailing for Salmon."
The historical display opened June 6th and will be ongoing through the fishing season. The exhibit will travel to Homer, AK next May, appearing at the Pratt Museum. It will be at the Anchorage Museum in 2011.
Elsewhere, a restored fishing sailboat, is on display in the harbor.
Learn More: www.agnewbeck.com
The award-winning documentary, Red Gold, follows the world's largest run of sockeye salmon from Alaska's Bristol Bay to their natal spawning grounds. The film weaves in the extraordinary stories of the Alaska Native people and commercial fishermen whose lives and traditions the salmon sustain. The proposed Pebble mine, a massive gold-copper-molybdenum deposit, now threatens to devastate those pristine spawning grounds.
