Bears can eat up to seven salmon per hour. If salmon are abundant, bear will eat skin, head and eggs and leave rest. Bears have learned a social order and a language. Bears may eat elderberries to help purge themselves of tapeworm. Can adjust hunting seasons to protect sows.
People are part of the environment too.
Bears and people can co-exist. Bears breaking into cabins more than before. People in the villages have been living with bears all of their lives. There are too many bears in the Uyak bay area. The recommendations the CAC will make will affect the tourism industry.