Dear Bristol Bay – we’re pretty sure you hit a million sockeye total run today; 40-some-odd-million more to go, and Port Moller indicates a few more should be on the way. Plus, we hear about how power plants could produce ice on the side.
Wednesday's catch was 145,400 sockeye, and the largest push came in the Nushagak: 113,000 fish caught there. Escapement was 36,565, still mostly in Nushagak. With a total run of 912,723 sockeye on Wednesday, today's probably the one-million fish day.
Tonight, we hear about how things are going for the Port Moller Test Fishery (spoiler: yesterday's numbers indicate more fish are on the way), check-in on the Nushagak District (no Wood River opener in the short-term forecast) and hear about technology that could be used to make ice at power plants.
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