Brian Venua
Fisheries ReporterBrian Venua grew up in Dillingham and attended Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA. He got his start in journalism at KDLG in 2020, interviewing and writing for the Bristol Bay Fisheries Report and signed on as a full-time host and reporter later that year.
As a local reporter, Brian covered a wide range of topics such as wildlife, economy, politics, health, and culture. Several of his articles have been featured by local, statewide and national news organizations, including the Bristol Bay Times, Alaska Public Media and National Native News.
He enjoys landscape photography, pyrography, hiking, kayaking, cooking, and music performance.
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Naknek-Kvichak fleets brought in more than half of Monday’s harvest. The bay’s total catch is now at 57 million sockeye, and the total run is at 74.5 million.
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The bay’s run is at 73.7 million sockeye. Harvests have dropped off around the bay, but fleets still hauled in just over half a million fish on Sunday. Naknek-Kvichak fishermen caught most of the daily harvest. Another quarter-million fish escaped up rivers across the bay. The bay’s total harvest this season is at 56.3 million fish.
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The Bristol Bay sockeye run is now 69.7 million fish, the largest run on record. Harvest is also about 25% higher than the next-highest haul, at 53.3 million fish as well.
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The Bristol Bay sockeye run is now 69.7 million fish, the largest run on record. You’ll hear about that a lot today. Harvest is also about 25% higher than the next-highest haul, at 53.3 million fish as well.
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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.
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Across the bay, fleets hauled in another mighty 2.6 million fish, for a season harvest total of 43.8 million. The Naknek-Kvichak saw its biggest harvest of the season so far - with 900,000 sockeye in their nets. And the Kvichak River met its escapement goal of 2 million fish.
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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.
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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.
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Fleets across the bay hauled in 2.8 million fish. The Naknek-Kvichak fleet saw its biggest harvest of the season so far, hauling in 800,000 fish. The Nushagak fleet broke its streak of million-fish days – falling just short. The Nushagak’s king run has come to a standstill, with the second day of no Chinook counted past the sonar.
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The Nushagak fleet pulled in its seventh daily harvest of over a million fish this season. Escapement in the Naknek-Kvichak is picking up: The Kvichak saw a huge push of salmon swim upriver, as did the Alagnak.