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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.

The family will have a funeral service at Holy Rosary Catholic Church on Friday, July 15, at 12:00 noon, on what would have been Angela’s 67th birthday. Angela will be interred at the Holy Rosary Cemetery after the service, with a post-funeral reception and potluck held at Kanakanak Hospital at 2:00 pm.

Bristol Bay fleets are sailing past the record-breaking harvest now. Fishermen caught another 2.3 million sockeye on Tuesday, for a bay-wide harvest of 48.8 million. The bay’s total run jumped to the second biggest on record at 64.2 million fish.

It’s official: Bristol Bay's 2022 sockeye salmon harvest is the biggest on record. Fleets have hauled in a total of 46.56 million fish this season. The Naknek-Kvichak district fleet hauled in over a million of those on Monday. The previous harvest record was set in 1995 at 44.7 million sockeye.

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.

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.