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The Kuskowkim River Salmon Management Working Group unanimously passed a motion asking the state to open the upper river above Aniak to gillnets for 24 hours once a week until the closure ends on Sept. 15. ....
Bristol Bay sockeye a high point in state s volatile season December 31st, 2020 |
More than 58 million sockeye salmon returned to Bristol Bay this summer. It s another in a series of enormous runs to the fishery. The commercial harvest was just as impressive Bristol Bay s fleet hauled in 39.5 million fish, which is the fifth-largest harvest on record. But while the Bay s run exceeded 50 million fish for the sixth year in a row 46% above the 20-year average many other areas of the state were far below their forecast. When you take Bristol Bay out of the picture and look at sockeye harvests in Alaska, the non-Bristol Bay sockeye harvests this year were the lowest on record since 1976, said Dan Leash, an economist with the McDowell Group. ....
Bristol Bay sockeye a high point in state s volatile season December 31st, 2020 |
More than 58 million sockeye salmon returned to Bristol Bay this summer. It s another in a series of enormous runs to the fishery. The commercial harvest was just as impressive Bristol Bay s fleet hauled in 39.5 million fish, which is the fifth-largest harvest on record. But while the Bay s run exceeded 50 million fish for the sixth year in a row 46% above the 20-year average many other areas of the state were far below their forecast. When you take Bristol Bay out of the picture and look at sockeye harvests in Alaska, the non-Bristol Bay sockeye harvests this year were the lowest on record since 1976, said Dan Leash, an economist with the McDowell Group. ....
Jeremy Kern, the Naknek Harbor port foreman, attributes some of its success to keeping staff local. “They know the industry, he said. They’ve grown up around the industry. They know a lot of the fishermen and a lot of the processing people at the different plants.” Bristol Bay’s fishery makes up the largest part of the region’s economy. But with so many fishermen flying in from around the world, concerns about COVID-19 plagued discussions in the lead-up to the 2020 fishing season. The Dillingham City Council and Tribes from both Dillingham and the Bristol Bay Borough united to ask Governor Dunleavy to close the fishery. ....