Alaska’s pristine Bristol Bay provides the best habitat for wild salmon on Earth. Despite its unmatched productivity and critical role in sustaining healthy salmon populations, Bristol Bay is under the threat from foreign mining companies seeking to turn the watershed into an industrial mining district. Pebble Mine not only risks the salmon but the culture of independent and native fisherman who have sustained on this resource for millennium. Renowned Chef Barton Seaver presented to students, staff, and community members on this critical natural resource, its place in the global ecosystem, and opportunities to help preserve the Bay with our forks.
About the speaker: Chef, author, speaker and National Geographic Fellow Barton Seaver is on a mission to restore our relationship with the ocean, the land, and with each other—through dinner. He believes food is a crucial way for us to connect with the ecosystems, people, and cultures of our world. He was Esquire magazine’s 2009 “Chef of the Year” and was honored as “StarChefs.com Community Innovator” as voted by over 1,000 chefs and culinary leaders worldwide. In 2010 he became a fellow with the National Geographic Society to increase awareness of ocean issues and inspire action. Check out his first book, For Cod & Country (2011), and his Seafood Decision Guide (http://tinyurl.com/6rvfgnk).
Support for this lecture series provided by Future of Fish and Sea to Table. Brought to Carleton by the Center for Community and Civic Engagement.