Photos by kiliiiyuyan / A decade after fishermen and Indigenous groups in Alaska began fighting to protect the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery from a proposed open-pit copper mine, the project has been denied a key permit, which may likely spell its end. The Pebble Mine “is contrary to the public interest,” stated the Army Corps of Engineers in Bristol Bay, a body of water that has produced two billion salmon and billions of dollars for Alaska fishermen. Follow me kiliiiyuyan, for more from the wildlands of the North. #pebblemine #bristolbay #alaska #salmon