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Bristol Bay Photo Gallery

Article December 16, 2014

Brenda Rone/NOAA Brenda Rone/NOAA
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
A brown bear sow catches the first coho (silver) salmon of the season on the Cook Inlet coast of Lake Clark National Park & Preserve, Alaska.
Carl Johnson Carl Johnson
Luke Strickland/Alaska Marine Conservation Council Luke Strickland/Alaska Marine Conservation Council
The crew of the F/V Chulyen casts out the marker buoy on the first set of a gillnet in Ugashik Bay. (MR, PR)
Carl Johnson Carl Johnson
Vera Spein hangs salmon on a drying rack at fish camp near Kwethluk, Alaska. Dried, smoked, and fresh salmon are staples of the subsistence lifestyle.
Clark Mishler Clark Mishler
A Yup'ik teenage girl picks a Chinook salmon from a subsistence gillnet on the shore of the Nushagak River at Kanakanak Beach.
Carl Johnson Carl Johnson
Corey Arnold Corey Arnold
Carl Johnson Carl Johnson
Aerial view of the Kvichak River downstream of Lake Iliamna, Bristol Bay region, Alaska.
Carl Johnson Carl Johnson
Drift net boats head up the Ugashik River to deliver the morning's catch of sockeye salmon to waiting tenders, with Mt. Kialagvik in the background.
Carl Johnson Carl Johnson
Brenda Rone/NOAA Brenda Rone/NOAA
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
A brown bear sow catches the first coho (silver) salmon of the season on the Cook Inlet coast of Lake Clark National Park & Preserve, Alaska.
Carl Johnson Carl Johnson
Luke Strickland/Alaska Marine Conservation Council Luke Strickland/Alaska Marine Conservation Council
The crew of the F/V Chulyen casts out the marker buoy on the first set of a gillnet in Ugashik Bay. (MR, PR)
Carl Johnson Carl Johnson
Vera Spein hangs salmon on a drying rack at fish camp near Kwethluk, Alaska. Dried, smoked, and fresh salmon are staples of the subsistence lifestyle.
Clark Mishler Clark Mishler
A Yup'ik teenage girl picks a Chinook salmon from a subsistence gillnet on the shore of the Nushagak River at Kanakanak Beach.
Carl Johnson Carl Johnson
Corey Arnold Corey Arnold
Carl Johnson Carl Johnson
Aerial view of the Kvichak River downstream of Lake Iliamna, Bristol Bay region, Alaska.
Carl Johnson Carl Johnson
Drift net boats head up the Ugashik River to deliver the morning's catch of sockeye salmon to waiting tenders, with Mt. Kialagvik in the background.
Carl Johnson Carl Johnson

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