OBI Seafoods Gives $200,000 to Protect Bristol Bay Wild Sockeye Habitat
OBI Seafoods has donated $200,000 to an initiative to create conservation easements, which would block access for a transportation route needed for construction of a proposed copper, gold and molybdenum mine abutting the Bristol Bay watershed.
The Pedro Bay Rivers Project, a partnership of the Pedro Bay Corp., the Bristol Bay Native Corp., the Bristol Bay Heritage Land Trust and The Conservation Fund, is close to achieving its year-end goal of raising the $20 million needed for th3e conservation easements.
Mark Palmer, chief executive officer of OBI Seafoods, said making the contribution was an easy decision and that he hopes others in the seafood industry will join them in donating to the fund.
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