An All-Time Record is Set in Bristol Bay — 63.2 Million Sockeye and Counting
(Updated Friday, July 23, 2021)
On Wednesday, the numbers that define the strength of a salmon run were announced by ADF&G and you could almost hear the champagne corks popping all over Bristol Bay — another all-time record was broken by the sheer numbers of sockeye salmon returning to spawn. Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s official cumulative catch total of 38,667,292 fish and 24,553,693 escapement means total run strength as of yesterday was 63.2 million sockeye salmon. That’s 270,000 salmon more than the second ...
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