Anchorage residents celebrate Salmon Day

Kacin Byayuk enjoys a forkful of salmon while mom Diana Gamechuk looks on at a community cookout hosted by the Bristol Bay Native Corporation celebrating Salmon Day in Anchorage on August 10. (Photo by Graelyn Brashear – KSKA/Anchorage)On August 10, the state celebrated its first official Alaska Wild Salmon Day. The feel-good day is focused on a fish that means many things to residents, said attendees at a community salmon bake hosted by the Bristol Bay Native Corporation in Anch