The preliminary value to fishermen of the nearly 41 million salmon caught this summer at Alaska’s largest fishery at Bristol Bay is nearly $248 million, 64% above the 20-year average.

In Bristol Bay’s Egegik district, it’s not uncommon to see some boats fishing in areas of the fishery deemed illegal by the state. But this year seemed particularly bad, according to the ...

This system restricted the number of commercial fishing permits in areas around the state, including Bristol Bay. Its purpose was to reduce pressure on the state’s fisheries and help financially ...

Advertising I’ve been cooking with wild-caught Bristol Bay salmon in my home and restaurants for decades — there’s nothing else like it. The long-term health of the fishery, well-being of ...

“It seems like a heroic – and perhaps tragic – life cycle,” said Thomas Quinn, a professor at the University of Washington who has been studying fish in Bristol Bay for 30 years. The ...

THE U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently announced it will conduct a scientific assessment of the Bristol Bay watershed at the urging of Alaskan Natives, sports-fishing and tourist groups ...

Chris Miller photographing the Bering Sea crab fishery. (Courtesy Photo / Chris Miller) It was a debt no honest man could pay that first brought Miller to Bristol Bay. He’d just graduated school ...

It would take a bit of effort and more than a little luck, but if there was any place where such a fishing fantasy could come true, it’s the Bristol Bay region — a sport-fishing Mecca in a ...

Bristol Bay’s 2022 sockeye run is now the biggest on record: 69.7 million fish have returned this summer. That surpasses the previous record of 67.7 million fish, which was set last year.

Fisheries in Bristol Bay are seeing record-setting salmon returns this summer even as salmon returns in Southeast are less promising, though some of the region’s multiple species have yet to ...

This year, 56 million sockeye salmon swam hundreds of miles from the ocean toward the rivers and streams of the Bristol Bay watershed in southwest Alaska. Many that escaped fisher ...