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The Nushagak fleet had another million-day catch on Sunday, but Egegik wasn’t far behind. Ugashik fisherfolk continue to bring in the biggest loads as the bay-wide run edges near 30 million fish.

The Nushagak District had its third-largest single day harvest with about 1.78 million salmon caught and Egegik fishers saw another 1.2 million in their nets as well. The bay-wide run is now 34.4 million fish.

Another day, another million-fish catch in the Nushagak. Harvest in that district is already the fourth-largest on record. After a lull, escapement up rivers on the West Side jumped on Tuesday. Egegik fleets brought in almost a million fish as well.

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.

The Nushagak District broke the record for single day harvest: The fleet caught 2.46 million salmon on Thursday. Average drift deliveries there had more than 2,000 sockeye. Ugashik fishers are still bringing in the heaviest loads.

On Thursday, the Nushagak District broke the record for single harvest day at 2.46 million sockeye caught. That’s the most amount of fish caught since commercial fishing started in the bay in 1884. Friday harvests were lower, but still a massive haul at 1.8 million fish.

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.

The bay’s daily sockeye run declined on Wednesday to 1.9 million salmon and Port Moller numbers are on the decline as well. Nushagak District fisherfolk caught the most fish but Ugashik fisherfolk had almost four times as many sockeye per drift delivery.

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.

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.