• 23
  • Oct, 2011
  • 0
Anti-Pebble Momentum Builds as Road Show Audience Soars
POSTED BY Brett Veerhusen IN Brett Veerhusen, Bristol Bay, Featured Posts, Salmon
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The Save Bristol Bay Road Show has been to three cities so far and nearly 1,000 people in total have learned more about the Pebble Mine. San Francisco is next!

  • 29
  • Sep, 2011
  • 0
Join Brett: Save Bristol Bay Roadshow
POSTED BY therealalaska IN Brett Veerhusen, Bristol Bay, Featured Posts
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Join Brett, Trout Unlimited and many more exciting panelists for a series of events to help save Bristol Bay from the Pebble Mine. We will be screening the award-winning documentary, Red Gold, as you learn more about the fight to stop the Pebble Mine!

  • 05
  • Jun, 2011
  • 1
Calling Alaska’s Lost Generation
POSTED BY Brett Veerhusen IN Brett Veerhusen, Featured Posts, Occupation, Opinion
Brett Veerhusen being a young skipper

Do you know how many times I hear, “I’m getting too old for this shit”?

Well, I’m sorry to break the news, but if you think you might be, then you probably are…

  • 18
  • May, 2011
  • 0
Pebble Decision Makers Must Answer to the Generations
POSTED BY Brett Veerhusen IN Advice, Brett Veerhusen, Bristol Bay, Featured Posts, Sustainability
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Every single person in local, state and federal government who has a say in whether or not the Pebble Mine moves forward must acknowledge and answer to those generations

  • 14
  • Apr, 2011
  • 1
Photo Album: Sitka Herring 2011 by Brett
POSTED BY Brett Veerhusen IN Brett Veerhusen, Featured Posts, Photographs, Sitka Herring
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A season filled with highs and lows, battles and victories. Here is a glimpse of my never to be forgotten experience crewing aboard the F/V Memry Anne during the Sitka Sac Roe Herring Fishery of 2011. Enjoy!

  • 02
  • Apr, 2011
  • 0
Modern Day Wild West
POSTED BY Brett Veerhusen IN Brett Veerhusen, Featured Posts, Sitka Herring
Boat Carnage

From the corner of my eye I spot a white mass come out of no where. Before I know it I am knocked against the cabin and here a deafening CRASH! Another boat collides with our starboard stern quarter and a true Sitka herring opener underway.

  • 23
  • Mar, 2011
  • 0
Most Lucrative Fishery
POSTED BY therealalaska IN Featured Posts, Fishing Advice, Occupation, Sierra Anderson
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It’s March and the Sitka Sac Roe Herring season is about to begin. The Real Alaska will be there with a reality television crew to capture it on film!

  • 14
  • Mar, 2011
  • 0
Alaska Summer Work (Video Included)
POSTED BY Brett Veerhusen IN Brett Veerhusen, Bristol Bay, Featured Posts, Fishing Advice, Salmon, Sustainability
Midnight Set in the Nushagak

I can feel it. Can you? Maybe it is the fact that my bank account is significantly smaller than last September and I know that it is time to refuel. I understand that it is only the middle of March, but in two and a half quick months I’ll be making the GREAT MIGRATION to [...]

  • 22
  • Feb, 2011
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F/V Time Bandit Loses Justin Tennison
POSTED BY therealalaska IN Deadliest Catch, Featured Posts
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The Real Alaska community is saddened by the loss of F/V Time Bandit crewman, Justin Tennison.

  • 09
  • Feb, 2011
  • 0
A New Beginning
POSTED BY therealalaska IN Brett Veerhusen, Featured Posts, Opinion, Sierra Anderson
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It is not just a face lift, The Real Alaska is launching a new beginning!

Brett and Sierra have been working very hard to bring TRA to the next level and we want to share some of our newest features and walk you through our new website, mission and vision.