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Bristol Bay Fisheries Report: June 24, 2018

Mitch Borden/KDLG

Heads up Nushagak and Wood Rivers! The most recent Port Moller stock composition summary shows 70 percent of inshore station fish and 85 percent of offshore station fish sampled were headed your way.

Fish showed up in the Nushagak District on Saturday. The fleet hauled in 433,700 sockeye and more than doubled the cumulative harvest across all five districts. The Port Moller stock composition summary shows more fish headed that way.

It's still slow on the east side, but Egegik and Ugashik are getting a little more fishing opportunity. The numbers are low compared to historical averages in those districts, but area management biologist Paul Salomone says that his in river test folks are reporting "nice, big" sockeye.

Also on tonight's report, we visit the annual fishermen's blessing and send off in Nakenk.

Catch this program nightly at 6 p.m., 10 p.m., and 2 a.m. on AM 670, and online at KDLG.org. (With early broadcasts Saturday and Sunday at 1:30 p.m.)

Letters from home to your friends and family in the Bay this summer? Email us at avery@kdlg.org, or call 907-842-5281. 

Have feedback, suggestions of something you'd like to hear? Reach AveryLill / Izzy Ross / Austin Fast / orMitch Borden (in Naknek)