Alaska’s Bristol Bay salmon return about average this year, with higher prices paid to fishers
The 2026 sockeye salmon run totaled 45.7 million fish, making this the first year since 2014 that the run was below 50 million, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game preliminary summary.
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