BBRSDA’s marketing & creative manager Aubrey McNeil interviewed Stacy Vega, Bristol Bay’s Egegik/Ugashik management biologist about the job, her trajectory and the amazing fishery.

BBRSDA is pleased to partner with two RSW technician companies to bring on additional apprentices to help service the fleet’s RSW systems this season. BBEDC will have 2 ice barges in Bristol Bay.

The bipartisan Keep Finfish Free Act of 2025 (KFFA) was just introduced by Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Dan Sullivan (R-AK) to stop federal agencies from permitting industrial finfish farms in U.S. waters without congressional approval.

RSW Operator Class in Naknek May 17-20th. Instructed by DC of Marine Refrigeration Solutions. BBRSDA offers a $500 reimbursement for any permit holders or their designated crew who complete the course

Thursday, May 15 at 12 AK time (1pm Pacific)

BBRSDA is hosting a webinar with the science team who creates the 2025 Bristol Bay Sockeye salmon forecast from the University of Washington AK Salmon Program.

The 2025 Captn Jacks’s from Coastwise Press is out and ready for your records. The quality information has been updated and moved to the front of the book so as not to interrupt your log mid season.