Alaska's Bristol Bay salmon return about average this year, with higher prices paid to fishers

Alaska's Bristol Bay salmon return about average this year, with higher prices paid to fishers

Alaska’s Bristol Bay region, site of the world’s biggest sockeye salmon runs, produced a total harvest this year that was a bit smaller than the 20-year average but fetched more dollars for fishers, according to a state summary. The 2026 sockeye salmon run totaled 45.7 million fish, making this the first year since 2014 that the run was below 50 million, according to the Alaska Department of Fish...