40% of the seafood harvested in American waters comes from the Bering Sea alone.

Eighty percent of Alaska’s people live on the coast and in some communities.

In Western Alaska, more than 600 pounds per person of subsistence-harvested animals and plants are consumed annually.

Fishing for wild salmon is the state’s commercial fishing economic backbone and engages local residents from Ketchikan to Kotzebue above the Arctic Circle.

Alaska is the U.S. Arctic, which is proving to be one of the most sensitive ecosystems to a warming climate.