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It’s late July and I’m standing with Daniel Schindler at the mouth of Sam Creek, a small tributary of western Alaska’s Bristol Bay, home to the largest wild…

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Peter Pan Seafoods ups base price to $1.25 a pound for Bristol Bay sockeye Peter Pan Seafoods has raised its base price for Bristol Bay sockeye to $1.25 a pound.  The company announced an initial base price of $1.10 in June, before fishing began.  The processor told its fleet it was upping the base price to $1.25 on Saturday -- the day after OBI Seafoods set its base price for that amount.  Travis Rowenfanz, the Bristol Bay manager for Peter Pan, said the company upped its price to compete with other processors. “There were some other rumors out there that the other base prices were goin...

Smaller sockeye are part of a larger trend of shrinking salmon The sockeye returning to Bristol Bay this year are smaller. The average fish this summer weighs just 4.5 pounds -- down more than half a pound from 2020, according to data from the Mckinley Research Group. That has been a trend over the past four decades, as increasingly smaller fish have returned to the bay amid larger salmon runs and warming oceans. That’s according to Dan Schindler, a fisheries professor at the University of Washington who has researched Bristol Bay salmon for decades. “The size of fish has declined for the...

The wild salmon season in Alaska officially kicked off May 17. IntraFish will be tracking the latest developments throughout the season as they happen, from Copper River to Bristol Bay and beyond. We'll have prices, catches, real-time analysis and news throughout the season. Bookmark this page or sign up for one of our daily newsletters to keep up with the latest news, updates, social media posts and analysis. -- Eastside (finally picks up) Thanks to more fish on the Eastside, Bristol Bay fishermen have hauled in a little over 31 million fish. The Ugashik hauled in 616,000 sockeye on July 12...