Vote in Alaska Puts Question: Gold or Fish?

Vote in Alaska Puts Question: Gold or Fish?

World 25 August 2008 -

Source: New York Times
By WILLIAM YARDLEY
Published: August 22, 2008
DILLINGHAM, Alaska - Just up the fish-rich rivers that surround this tiny bush town on Bristol Bay is a discovery of copper and gold so vast and valuable that no one seems able to measure it all. Then again, no one really knows the value of the rivers, either. They are the priceless headwaters of one of the world’s last great runs of Pacific salmon. The latest global assessment of cetaceans shows that the marine mammals throughout the world's oceans have experienced mixed fortunes.
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