Alaska Public Media

Sitka’s seafood donation network connects abundance with scarcity in Western Alaska

Jenny Bennis and her family donated sockeye from their setnet in Bristol Bay to help other families on the Yukon and Chignik rivers where salmon populations have crashed. (Alaska Longline Fishermen’s ...
Alaska Public Media

Marquee Alaska sockeye run was bigger than expected, but the individual fish were small

Salmon spread across the deck of a fishing vessel during last summer's record season in Bristol Bay. (Hope McKenney/KUCB) The world’s largest sockeye salmon run was larger than average this year, but ...
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Marquee Alaska sockeye run was bigger than expected, but the individual fish were small

NPS Photo / T. Quinn. 2006. The world’s largest sockeye salmon run was larger than average this year, but the percentage of those fish that were harvested commercially was lower than normal, and ...