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Bristol Bay Fisheries Report: June 19, 2018

Austin Fast/KDLG

Tonight on the fish report, Nushagak Section set netters get their first opener, and Copper River posts a price.

Activity in the east side districts may still be slow, but Dillingham is hopping. Fishing is officially open in both the Igushik and Nushagak Sections of the Nushagak District for set gillnets. Both sections opened to set netters at 6 p.m. this evening. Both sections open to drift gillnets tomorrow at 8 a.m. The district will close to drift and set nets tomorrow at 1 p.m.

Copper River Seafoods has posted a price for this week. Around Bristol Bay, it’s paying a whopping $2.00 a pound for floated, chilled and bled sockeye, $3.00 dollars for king over 11 pounds, $2.00 for King 11 pounds and under and $0.45 cents for Chum. The exception is the Togiak District, where it is paying $1.50 a pound for best quality sockeye and $0.30 for chum.

These stories and more on tonight's episode of Bristol Bay Fisheries Report:

Catch this program nightly at 6 p.m., 10 p.m., and 2 a.m. on AM 670, and online at KDLG.org. (With early broadcasts Saturday and Sunday at 1:30 p.m.)

Letters from home to your friends and family in the Bay this summer? Email us at avery@kdlg.org, or call 907-842-5281. 

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Seagulls wheel overhead in Naknek. Photo taken June 17, 2018.
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The Nootka Lupine are putting on a good show around the bay.