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Exxon Valdez 23rd Anniversary: Lessons Learned

ByMisty MacDuffee, Wild Salmon Program Director

Raincoast’s Misty MacDuffee speaks with CBC

On the 23rd anniversary of the Exxon Valdez Oil oil spill in Prince Willliam Sound, Alaska Raincoast biologist Misty MacDuffee speaks with CBC’s Gregor Cragie about lessons we have learned.

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Misty MacDuffee is a biologist with Raincoast's wild salmon program. She has spent over 20 years working in watersheds on BC’s coast advocating for the protection of salmon-based ecosystems. Misty’s work focuses on salmon management and the need to consider whales, bears and other wildlife within fisheries management.
More about Misty.