Bristol Bay’s sockeye salmon run totaled 51.6 million fish, more than a third higher than the preseason forecast of 37.9 million fish and about 7% higher than the average over the past 20 years ...

Fifteen-year-old Riley Neal landed a 51-pound king salmon in Alaska, but missed out on prize money due to his age.

Last year’s slimmed-down average size of Alaska salmon was influenced by the mix of age classes in the Bristol Bay harvest, the state’s dominant source of sockeye salmon.