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Jessie Sheldon/KDLGThe fish are not slowing down, and neither are crews. The Nushagak and Naknek-Kvichak districts are still hauling in schools, while other districts also carry their weight. The majority of rivers in the Bay are within their escapement goal ranges, and a handful have even surpassed them this early on. -
Courtesy of Tav AmmuAnother big harvest day Saturday in a weekend of banner late-season catch numbers for Naknek-Kvichak fleets. Total haul across the bay yesterday was 2 million fish. The total season catch is now at 33 million of a 44 million fish run. Though it remains to be seen how many fish are behind this shocking pulse, the season’s forecast is an estimated 51 million fish run. Escapement yesterday was 540,000.
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The total bay-wide harvest kept climbing after the surprising haul Thursday. Friday’s harvest was a staggering nearly 3 million fish, making it unequivocally the biggest haul of the season. Most of those fish came from Naknek-Kvichak, cementing some of the largest late-season catch numbers in recent memory. Escapement yesterday, though, was 706,000. -
The bay-wide catch slowed down some on Wednesday, but still almost half a million fish were caught yesterday. Almost half of that was in Egegik with 216,000 fish followed by the Naknek-Kvichak. The total run is now at 34.5 million. -
Bristol Bay fleets had another strong harvest day Monday with 1.8 million fish caught bay-wide. The biggest catch was in the Nushagak, followed closely by the Naknek-Kvichak. Escapement is at 7.5 million fish, and the total bay-wide run is at 31.1 million. -
Bristol Bay fishing crews saw a big push of salmon yesterday, putting their first "million fish day" of the season in the books. Fleets across the bay harvested over 1.5 million fish on Friday with Egegik and Nushagak crews banking over 600,000 salmon each and the Naknek-Kvichak district re-opening fishing in time to haul in almost 300,000. Total run in Bristol Bay is coming up on nine million. -
Over a million fish have now swam up the Nushagak. Fleets hauled in almost 850,000 fish baywide on Thursday, and the total run is at 7.1 million fish. -
It’s the last week of the 2022 fish report. Our final three shows are today, Wednesday and Friday. Today we’re going to look at the industry — prices, processors, harvest capacity, sleep and more. -
It’s the penultimate day of Fish and Game’s daily run summary. Another half-million fish came through the bay on Thursday and the total run is now 76.5 million sockeye. With harvest also at 58.2 million fish, this year’s records keep on growing. Let’s dive in. -
The bay-wide run is now 66.7 million salmon, just shy of last year’s record run of 67.7 million. The Nushagak District also has its second-largest run of all time with 28.3 million, just 100,000 over last year’s count of 28.2 million. -
Bristol Bay had 3.8 million fish come through the region on Saturday, the baywide run is now 53.8 million. The Nushagak District harvested another million fish and harvest there is now the second largest for the district on record. -
3.4 million fish came through Bristol Bay yesterday. The Nushagak District is now on its third biggest run of all time and has its third largest harvest of all time as well with weeks left in the season.
