This year's Bristol Bay sockeye salmon harvest seems to be "doing okay," according to biologists at the Alaska Department of Fish & Game (ADF&G), but results are so far mixed across the region.
"Right now for us, we're doing okay," Nushagak and Togiak Area Management Biologist Tim Sands told IntraFish. "We're ahead on our escapements and we caught almost a million sockeye over here [in Bristol Bay West], which is ahead of schedule."
The west side has been "more aggressive with our fishing," Sands added, because "we're expecting to get slammed later.
