Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Industry Pitches In to Feed Residents of St. Lawrence Island
Residents of St. Lawrence Island, way out west of Nome, Alaska, in the Bering Sea, are scheduled to get a big holiday gift this year – 40,000 pounds of canned salmon from five seafood processors donating some 8,000 pounds each.
The island residents – some 681 residents of Gambell and 671 residents of Savoonga – had a poor subsistence walrus hunting season – a hunt critical to the island’s food supply and cash economy.
Pacific Seafood Processors Association decided.... http://fnonlinenews.blogspot.com/2013/11/industry-pitches-in-to-feed-residents.html
Industry Pitches In to Feed Residents of St. Lawrence Island
Residents of St. Lawrence Island, way out west of Nome, Alaska, in the Bering Sea, are scheduled to get a big holiday gift this year – 40,000 pounds of canned salmon from five seafood processors donating some 8,000 pounds each.
The island residents – some 681 residents of Gambell and 671 residents of Savoonga – had a poor subsistence walrus hunting season – a hunt critical to the island’s food supply and cash economy.
Pacific Seafood Processors Association decided.... http://fnonlinenews.blogspot.com/2013/11/industry-pitches-in-to-feed-residents.html