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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Fishing slowed down a bit in most districts, but Egegik led Tuesday's harvest again with well over half a million salmon. The Nushagak District saw about half a million in escapement and Ugashik fishermen once again brought in some big deliveries. The bay-wide run so far is at 14.3 million salmon. That’s double what last year’s total run was at this date.
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The Nushagak River's sockeye escapement is now more than double its upper goal. Both the Nushagak and Egegik’s fleets hauled in huge harvests — Egegik’s fleet caught over 900,000 sockeye on Monday. Ugashik more than doubled its total harvest and had some hefty drift deliveries.
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Nushagak District fleets caught more than 1.2 million fish on Sunday — the highest daily catch for that day at least since 2017. This is only the third time they've harvested over a million fish in a single day this early in the season.
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The bay-wide run is over 3 million fish, and the Nushagak fleet had a big first opener, hauling in more than 800,000 fish. And the number of people fishing on the west side will only grow over the weekend. Egegik fishermen caught just under half a million fish.
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The Wood River run passed the 100,000-fish minimum managers need to open fishing in the Nushagak District. Fishermen will have their first opener soon. Egegik fishermen caught more than 200,000 fish on Tuesday. Fleets in the Ugashik and Naknek-Kvichak were out as well, bringing in smaller harvests.
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Welcome to the Bristol Bay Fisheries Report! A huge push of salmon swam up the Wood River on Sunday, putting Nushagak District fishermen on short notice. Egegik fishermen hauled in around 44,000 fish. While we wait on numbers from the counting towers, some seafood processing companies aren’t waiting to dole out their base prices.
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A look into how wildfire-related responsibilities are handled and delegated among the various land stewards of the Bristol Bay Area.
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The Iowithla River fire near Dillingham is now no longer growing towards the community according to an update from the Alaska interagency coordination center on Saturday. It was last logged at 27,500 acres and was about 9 miles from the town before fire boss planes dropped water on the flames to stop its growth.
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The Iowithla River fire is now only 9.3 miles from Dillingham. One plane was dispatched Tuesday to douse the flames. However, smoke prevented the plane from flying to the area, according to an update from the Alaska Interagency Coordination Center.
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Several wildfires have spread across the Bristol Bay region within the last week. At least seven have burned over 3,000 acres each, according to the Alaska Interagency Coordination Center.