the 2021 run of 66.1 million fish was also 32% above the state’s preseason forecast and the latest in a string of very strong sockeye returns Bristol Bay, which is the largest commercial sockeye ...

A 2021 analysis of change in permit holdings among the more than 10,000 local and nonlocal shareholders of the Bristol Bay Native Corporation shows a 38% decline in setnet and drift permit ...

Everyone dug in. Here in southwestern Alaska’s Bristol Bay, the Bandle family has fished by setnet for nearly 40 years, anchoring nets hundreds of feet long on the beach, then stretching them ...

Bristol Bay is home to the largest sockeye run on the ... Last year’s average weight for sockeye was 5.1 pounds. The 2021 average was just 4.5 pounds, according to the McKinley Research Group.

Bristol Bay had an astounding 77 million salmon return ... the Sea la Vie. He said the 2021 season set high expectations when last year’s forecast was announced, but he just wasn’t in the ...

The Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday that it would restore protections for Alaska’s Bristol Bay, blocking the construction of a massive and controversial gold mine near the world ...

By Lisa Friedman WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Thursday took the first steps that would allow it to begin the process of protecting Alaska’s pristine Bristol Bay, one of the world ...

There’s also a direct correlation between Bristol Bay’s incredible run of salmon—a record breaking 66 million sockeye returned in 2021 and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s forecast ...

In 2014, after three years of peer-reviewed study, the Obama administration’s EPA invoked a rarely used provision of the Clean Water Act to try to protect Bristol Bay after finding that a mine ...

Bristol Bay salmon fisheries contribute more than $2 billion to the U.S. economy and more than 15,000 jobs, according to a 2021 McKinley report prepared for the Bristol Bay Defense Fund ...