St. Cloud Times

Fishing sockeye salmon in Alaska: Mackenthun

Summer in Soldotna, Alaska, is full of long days; July 1 is a 19-hour day and the 31st of August runs nearly 14 and a half hours. For fishing guide Andrew Chadwick, long days are just part of the job.
SeafoodSource

Seattle restaurants, retailers promote Bristol Bay salmon after above-average harvest

In addition to Salmon Week, BBRSDA partners with national retailers such as Costco and Whole Foods, along with regional ...
The Daily Gazette

King salmon's disappearance has changed Alaska's Kenai River, but a soaring sockeye run is keeping it in business | Tribune | dailygazette.com

Fishing guide Jordan Carter, right, fillets sockeye salmon for clients Justin Schleicher, Brett Eismann and Bryan Fanning. All three customers caught their limit of sockeye salmon on July 23, 2025, in ...
SeafoodSource

Alaska officials forecast another strong Bristol Bay sockeye salmon run in 2026

“A total of 45.32 million sockeye salmon (with a range of 31.12 million to 59.52 million) are expected to return to Bristol ...
Alaska Dispatch News

Bristol Bay commercial sockeye salmon catch shatters record

NAKNEK — Record-breaking numbers of sockeye salmon have returned to southwest Alaska’s Bristol Bay and the tally is expected to climb higher in the days ahead. As of Thursday, fishing crews had caught ...
Yahoo

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 ...
KUOW

As sockeye salmon boom in Alaska, is there a lesson for us in Washington?

This year, more than 78 million sockeye salmon returned to the estuaries of Western Alaska, a record high and a stark contrast with most salmon populations elsewhere as urban infrastructure and rising ...
Marketplace

After a difficult year, Alaska’s salmon industry is back

In 2020, the price per pound for Bristol Bay, Alaska, sockeye salmon dropped to some of the lowest prices fishermen have seen in several years. The famed fishery, like most industries, wasn’t ...
Alaska Dispatch News

Fish and Game forecasts fair to poor sockeye runs for Cook Inlet, Copper River

State biologists are projecting a mixed bag of returns this spring and summer for Southcentral’s popular sockeye salmon fisheries. Alaska Department of Fish and Game officials on Feb. 7 issued a ...
Forbes

Alaskan Sockeye Salmon Are Running. Catch Them While You Can!

The Alaska Department of Fish & Game is predicting that more than 75 million sockeye will return to Bristol Bay this summer, topping the largest salmon run on record. The harvest of Bristol Bay ...
Alaska Public Media

State forecasts record sockeye run in Bristol Bay and below-average harvests in Cook Inlet

Fish and Game predicts about 2.05 million sockeye will be available for commercial harvest in Upper Cook Inlet in 2022. (Sabine Poux/KDLL) Alaska fishermen could see a record sockeye salmon harvest of ...