Bristol Bay fishermen protest processors’ low sockeye market price — 50 cents per pound

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Some Bristol Bay fishermen are furious over the 50 cent per pound market price for sockeye salmon that Bristol Bay processors are hitting them with.

Now the fishermen are protesting over a market price they received 40 years ago — a price some fisherman said could force the industry into a downward spiral, and that action needs to be taken. for their sockeye haul. With inflated costs of doing business, they were hoping for more than $2 per pound this season.

“They’re telling us there’s a bunch of fish left over from last year. The company we fish for, they told us that they pretty well sold all their fish,” Bristol Bay fisherman Ivan Basargin said.

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