The Alaska Marine Conservation Council works with coastal communities from Southeast Alaska to the Gulf of Alaska, Bristol Bay and the Bering Sea to conserve fisheries and marine life, sustain working waterfronts and address climate change.

Coastal Alaska is characterized by its rugged, wild landscape, remote communities and rich heritage. Families have long relied on fishing for their livelihood.  More than fifty percent of the nation's wild seafood comes from Alaska. As hunters of marine mammals, Alaskan Native peoples support traditional subsistence economies.

Alaska’s oceans sustain unparalleled fisheries and a great diversity of marine life. Corals, sponges, fish, crab, seabirds, waterfowl and marine mammals all depend on the right combination of environmental factors to flourish and each organism occupies an important niche in the marine food web. 

AMCC works with coastal Alaskans to support their conservation concerns and to seek solutions based on sound science and local knowledge. Some conservation concerns are specific to a region, while others, such as the need to address climate change are shared by communities throughout coastal Alaska.