The Salmon Mystery of Bristol Bay. Alaska’s biggest salmon run is booming despite warming water, and scientists are trying to understand why. PICK CREEK, Alaska In mid-July, sockeye poured into this stream, skittering through the.
The Nushagak River is now more than double its upper escapement goal. Both the Nushagak and Egegik’s fleets hauled in huge harvest numbers – Egegik’s fleet caught over 900,000 sockeye on Monday. Ugashik more than doubled their harvest so far, and had some hefty drift deliveries.
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A season of rough fishing in the Naknek-Kvichak
The run is tapering off in the Naknek-Kvichak District. Travis Elison, the district’s Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s East Area Management Biologist for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, said fishing has been good, but the weather has been rough.
“It’s been a real stormy, windy year, with Southeast winds have been blowing the fish farther away from the set netters, and it sounds like the fish are running deep it sounded like, from talking to a lot of the fishermen. All of it just makes it harder for them to catch, he said.
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