62% of all the fish in the world come from Alaska and half of those come from Bristol Bay

[Winterblues]

Bush* allowed for Bristol Bay to be drilled for oil right before he left office....Obama just took Bristol Bay out of the picture. He said there will be no drilling in Bristol Bay. Huge win for environmentalists..HUGE Just heard this on the morning News

[Oregone]

1. 31% of all fish come from Bristol Bay?

[Winterblues]

3. On the commercial market

:shrug:

[Oregone]

7. Oh. I thought you meant in general, which had me a bit confused

[ThomWV]

16. What does that mean? What's the commercial market vs. whatever market we get fish from?

I find it very difficult to believe that large a portion of the world's fish consumption comes from any one place.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

2. Here's a link:

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/04/01/1558201/alaskas-bristol-bay-excluded-from.html

[Winterblues]

5. Thank you

I should have researched it a bit before posting so I would have had a link at hand.. I was just so excited from hearing it on the radio..

[fascisthunter]

4. what man has done to its environment is stupid and tragic

all for money and greed...

[Zomby Woof]

6. And 62% of all the bullshit in the world comes from Bristol Palin's mother

The other 38% from Glenn Beck, Fox, Rush, etc.

[MineralMan]

8. Yah, but what about the five per cent that I catch every

year in Minnesota with my little aluminum boat and awesome angling skillz? What of them, eh?

[roguevalley]

14. are you sure its only 5%? :-D

[Rebubula]

9. Please Link to Stats

I am unable to find any facts supporting your initial statement of 62% of all fish IN THE WORLD come from Alaska. I have looked at many sources.

I find that number to be insanely high.


That said...I am glad that they are not drilling there.

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. I find it very hard to believe

For instance, world marine fish catch statistics:

# 1 China: 11,500,600 tons
# 2 Peru: 8,257,120 tons
# 3 Chile: 4,886,810 tons
# 4 Japan: 3,961,330 tons
# 5 Russia: 3,467,190 tons
# 6 Indonesia: 3,414,900 tons
# 7 United States: 3,329,230 tons
# 8 Norway: 2,551,180 tons
# 9 Thailand: 2,340,430 tons
# 10 India: 2,242,890 tons
...
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/env_mar_fis_cat-environment-marine-fish-catch

[Dead_Parrot]

13. Yeah, but they all sail to Bristol Bay to do it.

:silly:

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. I think you mean "62% of the US fish catch comes from Alaska"

eg:

As we look back at Alaska's seafood industry over the past year, consider this: 62 percent of our nation's seafood landings come from Alaska, as does 96 percent of all U.S. wild salmon. Globally, Alaska ranks ninth in the world in terms of seafood production. The seafood industry is second only to Big Oil in revenues it generates to state coffers, and it provides more Alaska jobs than oil/gas, mining, tourism and timber combined. Alaska's abundant and sustainable fishery resources are the envy of all other seafood producers, and its fishery management is regarded as a model around the world.

http://www.capitalcityweekly.com/stories/010610/bus_543445030.shtml

[progressoid]

12. Thanks for the clarification.

Those numbers seemed off.

[Bluenorthwest]

15. That figure is abusrd