The year Bristol Bay landed its 2 billionth salmon

James Shawcroft holds up what might have been the 2 billionth commercially caught salmon in Bristol Bay’s history at Coffee Point, July 6, 2016. (Photo by KDLG)
Bristol Bay is home to the largest sockeye salmon fishery in the world. Over 132 years of commercial effort, now more than 2 billion salmon have been harvested from the Bay’s waters. In fact, the 2 billionth salmon was landed sometime, by someone, on July 6, 2016.
It fell to Bob King, the longtime news director at K