79 Million Stronger

A great article from YETI on Bristol Bay salmon’s wild force, the fishermen who live to catch them and work to protect our favorite place on earth. Written by Ryan Peterson with photos by Travis Rummel

Bristol Bay salmon are of purely wild origin. Born in rivers and lakes, they migrate to saltwater after one or two years. After two or three more years at sea, they return to freshwater in one of the biggest movements of biomass on the planet. Tens of millions of five-pound silver bullets shooting upriver on a sacrificial mission to sniff out the very same stretch of water in which they were born. There they spawn and die, their bodies becoming ocean-derived fertilizer for a hungry land. The waterways, forests, and countless organisms like bears, bugs, and birds are all intricately reliant on each generation of salmon, and vice versa. 

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