Three Alaskans Receive Bristol Bay Corp.’s ‘Fish First’ Awards
The Indigenous-owned, Anchorage-based Bristol Bay Native Corporation (BBNC) honored three Alaskans recently during the seventh Bristol Bay Wild Salmon celebration in Washington, D.C.
The Fish First honors announced Sept. 16 were for those who support and champion Bristol Bay and its wild salmon. This year’s honors went to Tim Troll, Triston Chaney and the late Mary Olympic.
Troll is the executive director of the Bristol Bay Heritage Land Trust, which he helped create in 1999 to preserve places of cultural and biological importance in the Bristol Bay region. Chaney is a flyfishing guide from Dillingham who has fished commercially with his family to help pay his way through college.
Olympic, who died in 2015, was a respected Aleut/Yup'ik elder from Igiugig, whose life represente...
