The bay had a record sockeye salmon return this season. The salmon run, upwards of 70 million, was far and away the largest in recorded history. The catch was also at record levels.

WATCH: Dense clouds of Bristol Bay sockeye salmon crowd Alaska's Little Togiak Lake in August 2019. Video by Daniel Schindler / University of Washington. The clash reaches far beyond Alaska.

Armstrong and his collaborators at the University of Washington worked in 2013 at Little Togiak Lake -- one of five major lakes in the Wood River watershed that drain into Bristol Bay, a fishery ...

Togiak has Bristol Bay’s smallest and latest salmon run, but it's following the Nushagak's lead and broke through 1980’s total run record of 1.2 million sockeye on Monday. Follow this set net ...