Though the Bristol Bay season is in its very beginnings, Wednesday saw the Alaska salmon season's first promising sockeye catch.
Harvesters brought in 125,000 sockeye in the Nushagak district through the first commercial driftnet opening, bringing the cumulative catch to 141,815 fish so far.
It's a far cry from the 39 million sockeye projected to be harvested this season, but it's a good start, according to Alaska Department of Fish & Game (ADF&G) Westside Biologist Tim Sands.
