# @natgeo on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CITPyApjXuq
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/11687264-natgeo-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/476525ff31.jpg
- **Posted:** 2020-12-02T15:40:06.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** National Geographic (@NatGeo) — https://gondola.cc/NatGeo

## Caption

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

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bristolbay, alaska, salmon, pebblemine

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