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Fish processing and filleting factory of Silver Bay Seafoods on the bank of the Naknek River in Bristol Bay, Alaska.

The Silver Bay factory processed a record 2.5M lbs. of salmon per day at the peak of the 2019 season. Most of the fishermen bleed their catch before putting them into brailer bags that are then transferring to either shore or land-based tenders that chill the fish and rush them back to a shore-based 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 the peak of the salmon run in Bristol Bay, and the fishing season in the Egegik River, which can have 4-500 32ft. (300 yard net) licensed fishing boats offshore vying for the lucrative catch.

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Fish processing and filleting factory of Silver Bay Seafoods on the bank of the Naknek River in Bristol Bay, Alaska. <br />
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The Silver Bay factory processed a record 2.5M lbs. of salmon per day at the peak of the 2019 season. Most of the fishermen bleed their catch before putting them into brailer bags that are then transferring to either shore or land-based tenders that chill the fish and rush them back to a shore-based 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 the peak of the salmon run in Bristol Bay, and the fishing season in the Egegik River, which can have 4-500 32ft. (300 yard net) licensed fishing boats offshore vying for the lucrative catch.