March 15, 2011: Open panel, 'Fishing in Bristol Bay: Past, Present and Future'

Tuesday, March 15, 5-7 p.m.
UAA Campus Bookstore

Panelists include: Author Dave Atcheson (Kenai Peninsula College/UAA), Tim Troll (director of SW Alaska Programs for The Nature Conservancy), Biologist Dr. Carol Ann Woody (U.S. Geological Survey; UAF) and Melvin Brown (Bristol Bay subsistence and commercial fisherman). Everyone is invited to hear about controversial and sensitive issues surrounding Bristol Bay.

Dave Atcheson's book, "Hidden Alaska: Bristol Bay and Beyond," was published by National Geographic Society in February 2011.

Dr. Carol Ann Woody teaches at UAF and has worked with numerous agencies including over the US Geological Survey at the Alaska Science Center and the Fisheries Research Institute at the University of Washington. She has a doctorate in Fisheries Science from University of Washington and has been president of the Alaska Chapter of the American Fisheries.

Melvin Brown is a lifelong Alaskan and Bristol Bay drift net fisherman since 1963. He is a graduate of both the Mt. Edgecumbe High School in Sitka and of the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

This event if free with free parking available. For more information contact Rachel Epstein at (907) 786-4782, anre@uaa.alaska.edu.