The 2026 Bristol Bay sockeye season is essentially over, and the fish came in under what biologists predicted. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game had forecast a total run of 45.32 million sockeye supporting a harvest of about 33.5 million. By mid-July the bay-wide run had reached just over 43.2 million fish with the …
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