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Drift net fishing boats line up to offload their catch of sockeye salmon to a tender operating in the mouth of the Egegik River. The tenders chill the salmon and rush it back to an on-shore factory for processing. The fishery here is tightly managed by the Alaska Fish and Game biologists, who turn the fishing season on and off multiple times each day after a sustainable amount of fish have passed their monitoring stations up river. This is is the peak of the salmon run in Bristol Bay, and the fishing season in the Egegik River can have 4-500 32ft. licensed fishing boats vying for the best catch.

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Drift net fishing boats line up to offload their catch of sockeye salmon to a tender operating in the mouth of the Egegik River. The tenders chill the salmon and rush it back to an on-shore factory for processing. The fishery here is tightly managed by the Alaska Fish and Game biologists, who turn the fishing season on and off multiple times each day after a sustainable amount of fish have passed their monitoring stations up river. This is is the peak of the salmon run in Bristol Bay, and the fishing season in the Egegik River can have 4-500 32ft. licensed fishing boats vying for the best catch.

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