For the first 98 years, up to the first billionth sockeye caught, Bristol Bay’s average annual catch was a little more than 10 million fish per year. For the last 38 years, it’s been about 27 ...

NAKNEK — Record-breaking numbers of sockeye salmon have returned to southwest Alaska’s Bristol Bay and the tally is expected to climb higher in the days ahead. As of Thursday, fishing crews ...

Epic forecast for Bristol Bay salmon has fishing industry worried it will be too much to handle . April 7, 2022 at 4:41 pm Updated April 7, 2022 at 10:53 pm . By . Alex DeMarban.

Alaska biologists are forecasting another massive run of sockeye salmon in Bristol Bay this summer, raising questions in commercial fishing circles about whether the industry in the Southwest ...

Driftnet fishing for sockeye salmon along the Nushagak River. ... Indigenous people have subsisted on wild salmon in Bristol Bay for 4,000 years, said Alan Boraas, ...

Salmon runs in in her blood. By Bjorn Dihle. When Melanie Brown was 10 years old, her mom decided it was time for her to begin fishing the family’s setnet site on the Naknek River in Bristol Bay.

ANCHORAGE — Bristol Bay is a place defined by salmon. For those of us who live and work in this region of wetlands, rivers and tundra, our lives revolve around this amazing fish.

Tenders tie up at the processor’s docks, where a tube sucks salmon out of the hold and pumps them into a room-sized vat of ...

James Shawcroft holds up what might have been the 2,000,000,000th commercially caught salmon in Bristol Bay's history. At Coffee Point, July 6, 2016.

The contentious debate over the proposed mine in Alaska's Bristol Bay could have ramifications for the Puget Sound salmon and orca population, as well as fishing industry jobs.

Bristol Bay sits in southwestern Alaska, due north of the Alaskan Peninsula and roughly 300 miles southwest of Anchorage. The descriptor is a catchall for the area containing the many watersheds ...

The most abundant source for sockeye salmon is Bristol Bay. This watershed in southwest Alaska is a salmon hot spot and accounts for over half of the world’s sockey salmon harvest.