• Alaska is the Salmon State — the last best place for wild salmon and the ways of life they make possible.

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  • Acid mine waste from Tulsequah Chief Mine

    The same kinds of shortsighted destruction that eradicated salmon in the Lower 48 threaten Alaska's wild salmon rivers.

  • Climate change is wreaking havoc at sea and in freshwater.

  • Policies that fail to put fish and people first are failing Alaskans.

  • We work with partners across the state to keep Alaska a place wild salmon and the people who depend on them thrive.

  • Trawl vessels docked in Seattle, WA

    From stopping wasteful trawl bycatch, which is depleting our oceans and affecting traditional and small boat fishermen

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  • To the transboundary rivers flowing from Canada into Southeast Alaska's coastal rainforest

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  • A lake, mountains and the Skwentna River located in the West Su

    To the wild west Susitna region in Southcentral Alaska

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  • We work to keep Alaska's wild salmon and the jobs, sustenance, and ways of life they make possible thriving for years to come.

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Wild salmon bring us together.

Wild salmon power our economy, sustain our communities, underpin traditions, and fill our bellies.

At SalmonState, we work to keep Alaska a place wild salmon and the people who depend on them thrive.

Trawler docked in Seattle

Stop Wasteful Bycatch

Over the last 10 years, trawlers have bycaught and largely discarded 141 million pounds of salmon, crab, halibut and other species each year on average. While nearly every other sector of the Bering Sea based fishery suffers, the largest, most wasteful one continues full steam ahead. This must change.

Stikine River Watershed

Photo by Colin Arisman

Salmon Beyond Borders

The transboundary Taku, Stikine and Unuk rivers flowing from the glaciated, boreal forest of British Columbia, Canada into Southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest are home to all five species of wild Pacific salmon and are vital to our economy and ways of life. Their headwaters are also home to a massive, industrialized Gold Rush, and Alaskans just miles downstream have no meaningful voice.

Sleeping Lady, Alexander Creek, Susitna River

Defend the West Su

A proposed 100-mile-long road by an irresponsible state agency is a bad idea, and Alaskans who hunt, fish, and rely on the West Su for their livelihoods are speaking up.

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Southeast Alaska

Southeast Alaska’s 35 communities are part of the world’s largest temperate rainforest, a place salmon feed even the trees. We work with Southeast residents, leaders and organizations embracing sustainable, locally-led, restorative paths forward.