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Bristol Bay's sockeye run is already the biggest on record

Bristol Bay's sockeye run of 69.7 million fish is the biggest on record

The 2022 run has surpassed the previous record, set last year. River systems on the west side of Bristol Bay have seen an especially large sockeye boom in recent years. Even with commercial exploitation of the sockeye populations, fisheries scientists say the recent runs have returned at historically high rates.

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Bristol Bay sockeye run breaks records, while others struggle. Climate change may be a factor.

In the past decade, Bristol Bay has seen consistently large salmon runs and continues to break records. But some other Alaska fisheries are experiencing…

Bristol Bay Fisheries Report: July 14, 2021

Smaller sockeye are part of a larger trend of shrinking salmon The sockeye returning to Bristol Bay this year are smaller. The average fish this summer weighs just 4.5 pounds down more than half a pound from 2020, according to data from the Mckinley Research Group. That has been a trend over the past four decades, as increasingly smaller fish have returned to the bay amid larger salmon runs and warming oceans. That’s according to Dan Schindler, a fisheries professor at the University of Washington who has researched Bristol Bay salmon for decades. “The size of fish has declined for their age. So the size of 2-ocean fish has been declining slowly over time, and the size of 3-ocean fish has been slowly declining over time,” he said.