Isabelle Ross
News DirectorIzzy Ross is the news director at KDLG, the NPR member station in Dillingham. She reports, edits, and hosts stories from around the Bristol Bay region, and collaborates with other radio stations across the state.
Since 2019, Izzy has directed the Bristol Bay Fisheries Report, which provides vital information daily to thousands of commercial fishermen in the summer. She has also reported for Alaska's Energy Desk, a regional journalism collaboration with Alaska Public Media. Her work airs regularly on Alaska Public Media's statewide news. It has also aired on National Native News, Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Here and Now.
Izzy graduated from Smith College with a degree in Government in 2015. After graduating, she spent a year reporting on stand-up comedy in Berlin, Germany, on a Fulbright Journalism Fellowship. She has worked for Washington Monthly, NPR Berlin, and Deutsche Welle.
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Fishing slowed down a bit in most districts, but Egegik led yesterday’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. -
Peter Pan Seafoods announced this weekend it is boosting the price of sockeye salmon from $1.00 to $1.15 per pound. The announcement comes a little more than a week after the company announced the starting price.
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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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Egegik fishermen hauled in the bay's biggest harvest on Saturday. Ugashik fishermen hauled in the smallest, but their drift deliveries were huge. Sockeye runs to Nushagak and Wood rivers were over 200,000. We also have revised numbers for the Nushagak's king escapement.
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The Nushagak District saw a huge pulse of fish on Friday. Half a million sockeye swam past the Nushagak River sonar. More than a quarter million escaped up the Wood River. Nushagak’s commercial harvest was a bit more tempered than earlier in the week, but still the largest of the districts. More than 1 million fish returned to the bay on Friday.
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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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Peter Pan announced the 2022 base price ahead of the fishing season. It's following a precedent it set last year, when it became the first major company in decades to tell fishermen what they would get paid before the season started. Company officials say this year's $1.00 base price will likely increase, but some fishermen are frustrated.
