Melanie Brown joined her multi-generational family of Bristol Bay commercial fishermen when she was 10, spending summers fishing for sockeye salmon with her great-grandparents in Bristol Bay. You can learn more about Melanie and her family’s fish head soup story here! Melanie is also an active Slow Fish North America community member.
If you need some tips on where and how to source Slow Fish, check out Slow Fish 101 with Colles Stowell from Slow Food Live a few weeks ago and hear more from Melanie (including her beautiful musical talent) in the Slow Fish Crew Together webinar series!
Melanie works with Salmon State, which works in tandem with the above cited organizations and is affiliated with Fishermen for Bristol Bay.
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Join Melanie and Slow Fish in the fight to stop the Bristol Bay Pebble Mine and keep up with the tribes and fishermen of Bristol Bay:
- Learn more about the many reasons to Defend Bristol Bay
- Follow @wearebristolbay
Get the kids involved on this matter, they are a very powerful force, social media, facebook, now Tik Tok, this will be their land, long after we are gone, ask them if this is what they want. , they are smart, they will beat Pebble Mine , get them to talk to kids in other states, help them with this project, it gives them something they can belong to, help join the fight. lot’s of kids are at home due to the Covid-19, need something to do,
Go get them youngsters.