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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.

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.

Across the bay, fleets hauled in another mighty 2.6 million fish, for a season harvest total of 43.8 million. The Naknek-Kvichak saw its biggest harvest of the season so far - with 900,000 sockeye in their nets. And the Kvichak River met its escapement goal of 2 million fish.

Fleets across the bay hauled in 2.8 million fish. The Naknek-Kvichak fleet saw its biggest harvest of the season so far, hauling in 800,000 fish. The Nushagak fleet broke its streak of million-fish days – falling just short. The Nushagak’s king run has come to a standstill, with the second day of no Chinook counted past the sonar.

3.4 million fish came through Bristol Bay yesterday. The Nushagak District is now on its third biggest run of all time and has its third largest harvest of all time as well with weeks left in the season.

The Nushagak fleet pulled in its seventh daily harvest of over a million fish this season. Escapement in the Naknek-Kvichak is picking up: The Kvichak saw a huge push of salmon swim upriver, as did the Alagnak.

Bristol Bay had 3.8 million fish come through the region on Saturday, the baywide run is now 53.8 million. The Nushagak District harvested another million fish and harvest there is now the second largest for the district on record.