Bristol Bay


Also found in: Wikipedia.

Bristol Bay

An arm of the Bering Sea in southwest Alaska between the mainland and the Alaska Peninsula. It is a rich salmon-fishing area.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
References in periodicals archive ?
Kratos Defense & Security Solutions announced that the Kratos Defense & Rocket Support Services Division has been awarded a subcontract with a potential value of $14.9M from Vista Technical Services, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bristol Bay Native Corporation, an Alaskan Native Corporation, to support the Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems Army Logistics Transformation contract.
Under Barack Obama, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed limits on large-scale mining in Alaska's Bristol Bay watershed in 2014, citing environmental concerns.
This year's salmon runs will provide insight into the theory that a warm water anomaly in the Gulf of Alaska in 2015 was to blame for poor runs nearly everywhere in the Last Frontier (with the exception of the record-setting run of sockeye in Bristol Bay) last year.
The scientists made a portable system that could work in an extreme environment and used it on beluga whales in Bristol Bay, Alaska.
"Our recent Wild-Caught Alaska Bristol Bay Sockeye promotion was a benchmark for us to repeat in coming years," says Joshua Dooley, meat and seafood sales manager for QFC in Seattle.
Anchorage, AK, April 27, 2017 --(PR.com)-- Carl Johnson, an Anchorage photographer with over 20 years professional experience, has attempted to capture the natural beauty of Bristol Bay's 40 million acres of land and water, and the lives of its 7,259 residents, in 176 pages with the book, "Where Water is Gold: Life and Livelihood in Alaska's Bristol Bay" (Braided River 2016).
For nearly half her life, Heidi Kritz has been working to protect Alaska's Bristol Bay from the Pebble Mine project.
12 February 2016 - US-based holding company Sunroad Enterprises has acquired Sonoma Ridge Apartments in Peoria, Arizona and Bristol Bay Apartments in Sparks, Nevada, the company said.
Target: Sonoma Ridge Apartments in Peoria, Arizona and Bristol Bay Apartments in Sparks, Nevada
Full browser ?