The secretive nature of price setting in Alaska salmon fisheries strains relationships between processors and independent fishermen and puts both on precarious financial footing. by John Fiorillo, courtesy of Intrafish Media.

The project could improve understanding of Chinook salmon escapement by identifying and protecting Chinook migration corridors, and help sockeye salmon fishermen with the potential of an earlier opening to the sockeye salmon season. 

Last week, NOAA Fisheries announced that the 2024 Saltonstall-Kennedy (S-K) Grant competition is now open. All interested applicants must submit a 2 page Pre-Proposal by July 24, 2023.

12:30 at the BB School District in Naknek. See you soon!

BBRSDA has worked closely with regional tribal leaders, conservation groups, and other business partners to protect Bristol Bay, submitting extensive substantive comments to both the EPA and the US Army Corps of Engineers, fighting the project in court, and engaging with commercial fishermen.

2022 Bristol Bay Price & Fleet Services Snapshot: Results are in. We surveyed Bristol Bay fishermen on processor prices and services for the 2022 season. The results are a snapshot of last season in the Bay — all self-reported from the drifters (S03T). 

U.S. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, both R-Alaska, and U.S. Representative Mary Peltola, D-Alaska, today applauded the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) announcement that it has approved the purchase of up to $119.5 million worth of Alaskan Sockeye and Pacific Groundfish, which will be distributed across the country through federal food assistance programs.

Read the May Waypoints newsletter for news opportunities and more.

Updates from marketing and Bristol Bay Sockeye Salmon in the press.

Welcome to the 2022 BBRSDA Annual Report, BBRSDA works hard to fulfill its mission of increasing fishery value for our members, and we’ve summarized those efforts in our 2022 Annual Report to Members

BBRSDA Executive Director Andy Wink will be hosting a meeting with BBRSDA members in Astoria, OR on Friday, April 28 at 12:30pm at the Longshore & Warehouse Union Hall (491 Industry St.).

BBRSDA President Michael Jackson and Executive Director Andy Wink will be hosting a meeting with BBRSDA members in Homer, AK on Tuesday, April 25 at 6pm

Recorded webinar and slide decks available from May 4th live presentation.

BBRSDA & Tim Sands join BB Campus, SeaGrant and BBEDC for Lunch & Learn 4.11.23

2023 Winners: 
Seat C (Alaska Resident Seat): Fritz Johnson
Seat F (Open Residency): Mark Niver

Andy Wink is familiar to many as he has been at the helm of the organization as Executive Director of BBRSDA for 5 years but we realized it had been a long time since Andy had a proper introduction or the chance for us to get to know him a little better.

(SENA) provides a one-of-a-kind marketplace for reaching seafood buyers and processors in the U.S. and North American market

From Togiak/Nushagak Area Management Biologist Tim Sands

This program, called “Expanding RSW Service Capacity in Bristol Bay,” is designed to support existing RSW technicians to hire and train apprentices to help perform more maintenance and repairs to RSW systems of Bristol Bay drift boats. Grants up to $15,000 available for RSW companies to take on apprentices for the 2022 season.