Bristol Bay fleet chilled more salmon in 2016 than ever before: study

The Bristol Bay salmon drift fleet sold more chilled salmon to processors last year than ever before. Bristol Bay is the world’s largest salmon fishery, and is making efforts to sell a larger portion of its catch as fillets, rather than canned. Filling those fresh and frozen orders requires chilling at the point of harvest, which more fishermen are apparently doing.
Audio transcript: The Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association commissions the Northern Economics to survey fish