A steady flow of Bristol Bay salmon into the market this year is helping stabilize prices for distributors and retailers.

"Last year was such a strange year because you had big gaps in the runs, and the supply line didn't get to normalize,"Matthew Davis, Santa Monica Seafood's director of strategic sourcing and support, told IntraFish.

While the Bristol Bay run was historic in terms of size and harvest in 2018, it was also unusual in terms of coho arriving early and a portion of the sockeye showing up in August, and even into September, he said.