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Bristol Bay Fisheries Report: June 22, 2018

Mitch Borden/ KDLG

Thanks to good king escapement, commerical fishing is well underway in the Nushagak Section. Reds are hittings slowly, but the run is expected to accelerate soon.

The Nushagak Section has been fishing since Tuesday, and reds are hitting relatively slowly. However, area management biologist, Tim Sands, advises fisherment to be ready for the run to pick up speed in the near future.

The Port Moller Test Fishery operated two boats today for the last time this season. The F/V Icelander joined the research vessel Pandalus for a week, and together they were able to sample fish further from Port Moller. Now the F/V Icelander heads to the Nushagak District to tender for Icicle Seafoods. 

Also on tonight's show,  a greenhorn deckhand relates his harrowing experience of capsizing in a rowboat near the Bermuda Triangle.

 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. 

Have feedback, suggestions of something you'd like to hear? Reach AveryLill / Izzy Ross / Austin Fast / orMitch Borden (in Naknek)

 

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There are fewer and fewer boats in the Dillingham boat harbor.
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Snake Lake Mountain just outside of Dillingham basking in yesterday's solstice sun at 9:59 p.m.