Red Gold: The Livelihood of Bristol Bay

The Bristol Bay salmon run attracts people from all over the globe, who work around the clock from late May until the end of July. They harvest sockeye salmon, known as "Red Gold" for the fish's deep unique color, it's sought-after flavor, and it's lucrative value to the men and women who work feverishly in the fishery.
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[@mindtheredd587]

YES!!!

[@DaveClark907]

Is it just me , or does the dude off the Mr. Fox seem crazy AF?

[@amysiciliani6517]

It's just you.

[@straithill5965]

This is the place that everyone is worried that mining is going to destroy? Looks like these fisherman have already junked it up pretty good.

[@Ma_Ba]

Aesthetic of boat lot is not the same as heavy metals in the water. The salmon going upstream to spawn use a sense of smell to find the route and they won't make it back when the water is altered. The amount of water used to separate the gold from rock is massive and then polluted. The holding areas for that water are known to have failures. I don't live there, but I benefit by eating canned salmon for lunch that is heart healthy and better than farmed salmon for the environment and for my body. On other videos, you can see how beautiful it is up river. I will never get to go there, but it is a unique place and a treasured food source for me. I know that mines get used up and then abandoned and then waste goes on to leach. I am in the lower 48.