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| Welcome to Ugashik.com Ugashik Bay is the southern-most of the seven Bristol Bay salmon-management districts of Southwest Alaska. The bay is eight miles wide and twenty-one miles long forming an askew "comma" shape. (see Google map) It was created by tidal action gradually widening the mouth of the Ugashik River as it flows into the Bering Sea's Bristol Bay, allowing a significant marine environment to overtake the fresh-water stream. The present size of the bay allows salt-water marine waters to flow into the lower reaches of each of its three major contributors: the Dog Salmon River, Dago Creek, and the King Salmon River. Lakes at the head of the Ugashik and King Salmon Rivers provide an ideal environment for large annual runs of Sockeye (Oncorhynchus nerka) salmon, while the braided confluences of the King and Dog Salmon Rivers provide habitat for Silver (Oncorhynchus kisutch), Chum (Oncorhynchus keta) and King (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) salmon. Other, non-commercial, species also have a significant presence: herring, smelt, flounder, pink salmon, sea-run dolly varden, yellow-fin sole, halibut, sculpin, salmon sharks, gray whales, humpback whales, shrimp, muscles, and butter clams are all easily found. Less common are several species of crab, true cod, orca whales, beluga whales, and rockfish. Harbor seals are very abundant. This site is dedicated to information about the communities and commercial fisheries of the Ugashik Bay. You're welcome to explore these online pages and invited to visit us in person, soon. Please share with us your comments and suggestions! Our email address is listed at the bottom of the menu board, cleverly disguised as "Contact Us!" Thanks for stopping by. |
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| Does open-pit mining threaten the purity and sustainability of Bristol Bay salmon runs? Lots of people think so and they're not happy about efforts by the current State Administration to push development of mineral extraction right alongside Lake Iliamna. The proposed Pebble Mine could threaten already-weak runs on the Kvichak River and hamper efforts to restore the system to traditionally healthy numbers. Read more about it here. |
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| Confused about whether farmed fish like Atlantic Salmon is safe to eat? Every news release from recent months suggests it isn't safe at all. First came studies showing high levels of artificial coloring, antibiotics, growth hormones and toxic chemical loads (mercury, PCB's, arsenic to name a few) and now it's been revealed that feed meal - like cat food, dog food, pig gruel and pellets fed to farmed fish - contains melamine, that plastic chemical which fools testers into believing the protein content of food is higher than it really is. To be safe, always opt for wild over farmed, since wild fish will only eat what's available in the natural environment. There really is no substitute for nature. |