Alaska Gold
11:00pm
The Bristol Bay region of southwest Alaska is home to the last great wild Sockeye salmon fishery in the world. It is also home to enormous mineral deposits estimated to be worth some $300 billion. Two foreign mining companies want to extract this mineral wealth by digging a large open-pit mine, which will disrupt the fishery’s livelihood. Frontline travels to Alaska to probe the battle between the fishery and the mining company, and the political framework that will ultimately decide the outcome.
