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The bay-wide harvest dropped somewhat Tuesday with 723,000 fish hauled in. Catches were about neck-in-neck in Egegik, Naknek, and the Nushagak with around a quarter million fish each. The bay-wide escapement is at 8 million fish. The total run is at 32.7 million.

The National Weather Service issued a wind chill advisory until Tuesday morning for interior Bristol Bay, including Koliganek, New Stuyahok and as far…

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.

Runs are heating up, with almost a million fish hauled in bay-wide on Tuesday, with the biggest catch in the Nushagak with 675,000 fish. Escapement is at 2.4 million bay-wide, and the total run is at 5.2 million. Tonight, we dive further into the Skipper Science Program, catch up with Ugashik fishing crews, and discuss how last year's big catch is affecting this year's markets.

Fishing in Egegik gets a boost as the run picks up there -- that fleet is looking at a set of openers. A push of fish up the Naknek River doubled the…

On the show this week, we go to a meeting BBAHC held on healthcare in the area. We talk through Nushagak Cooperative's price hike. And we hear from a few…

Bristol Bay’s total run is at 75.3 million sockeye. The Naknek-Kvichak fleet hauled in the largest catch of the day again, at more than a quarter-million fish. And Area M fisherfolk caught 268,315 salmon for a total harvest of 9.45 million.

Harvests dropped a bit, but it was another million fish day in the bay Tuesday, with fleets hauling in 1.4 million fish. The largest harvests were by Nushagak fleets followed closely by Egegik. The total run is now at 19.6 million.

It’s July 15 and it’s technically the last day to do your taxes! Otherwise, it’s a great day for fishing. Daily harvest Baywide eclipsed 2 million…

It was another million-fish-day in the Nushagak. Harvest for the Nushagak is now more than 50% above average for the past few years. While other districts aren’t quite as prolific, fishermen are still pulling in those nets.