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A male spawning salmon lays in Hanson Creek struggling to make his way up stream to the nesting females. He later made it up there an will use his elongated jaws and sharp teeth to fight off other males in his attempts to fertilise as many eggs as possible.
A male salmon thrashes around in Hanson Creek, spreading his milt and fertilisng eggs. After ejecting all of his milt he will lay waste and die. The salmon run and spawned-out salmon provide critical nutrients to plants and animals in the surrounding watershed.
A dead female sockeye salmon lies on the bank of Hanson Creek. It has been partially eaten by a brown bear and had its eyes pecked out by birds. Sockeye are an important food resource for many animals and plants in the Bristol Bay watershed and help to shape the ecosystem that defines the region.
Two sockeye salmon lay in the mouth of Hanson Creek, Bristol Bay Alaska.
Scientists from the University of Washington’s Fisheries Research Institute measure a sedated male sockeye salmon, Lake Aleknagik, Bristol Bay, Alaska, USA 18th July 2008
Kevin Wilson, deck hand of the Fishing Vessel Curragh, picks freshly caught sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka), also known as red salmon and blue back salmon, on the back deck of a 32 foot long salmon gillnet fishing boat, Naknek River fishing district, Bristol Bay, Alaska, USA 28th June 2008
Joe Picha, deck hand on the Fishing Vessel Curragh, holds a freshly caught sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) in one hand, scales and blood from other fish coat his overalls, back deck of a 32 foot long gillnet fishing vessel, Naknek River fishing district, Bristol Bay, Alaska, USA 30th june 2008
Kevin Wilson, deck hand on the fishing vessel Curragh, holds a freshly caught sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) on the back deck of a 32 foot long gillnet fishing vessel, Naknek River fishing district, Bristol Bay, Alaska, USA 28th June 2008
Kevin Wilson, deck hand of the Fishing Vessel Curragh, holds a freshly caught sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka), also known as red salmon and blue back salmon, on the back deck of a 32 foot long salmon gillnet fishing boat, Naknek River fishing district, Bristol Bay, Alaska, USA 26th June 2008
Daniel Blakey, captain of the fishing vessel Curragh, navigates through the maze of fishing gear from the fly-deck of the Curragh. Fishing the line is intense with action as hundreds of boats fight to set their gear as close to the incoming salmon as possible. Naknek River fishing district, Bristol Bay, Alaska.
Kevin Wilson, deck hand of the Fishing Vessel Curragh, looking out to sea on the back deck of a 32 foot long salmon gillnet fishing boat on his first day of the fishing season, Naknek River fishing district, Bristol Bay, Alaska, USA 26th June 2008
A fisheries scientist from the University of Washington’s Fisheries Research Institute holds out her hand to reveal small fish and a coho salmon fry (Oncorhynchus kisutch), Lake Aleknagik, Bristol Bay, Alaska, USA 18th July 2008
Small rivers meandering across the Nushagak River drainage basin, Bristol Bay, Alaska, USA 15th July 2008
Scientists from the Fisheries Research Institute on Lake Aleknagik lay electronic tracking devices in a stream bed to monitor the movements of baby salmon fry.
A female brown bear defends her cubs at Brooks Falls in Katmai National park, Alaska
A salmon gillnet fishing boat fishing for sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) lit by the morning sunrise, Naknek River fishing district, Bristol Bay, Alaska, USA 30th June 2008
Multiple gillnet fishing vessels setting their fishing gear directly on the Southern Line of the Naknek River fishing district, salmon swim with the flooding tide and so these boats are setting their nets as close to the salmon as possible (known as ‘fishing the line’) in what is often a fiercly and sometimes dangerously competative fishing tecnique, Bristol Bay, Alaska, USA 30th June 2008
Kevin Wilson and Joe Picha, deck hands on the Fishing Vessel Curragh, set their fishing gear at dusk, the drum is spinning very fast as the fishing line spills into the water, Naknek River fishing district, Bristol Bay, Alaska, USA 30th June 2008
Kevin Wilson and Joe Picha, deck hands on the Fishing VEssel Curragh, admire the setting sun while waiting for orders from their captain to set the fishing gear, Naknek River fishing district, Bristol Bay, Alaska, USA 29th June 2008
Kevin Wilson, deck hand of the Fishing Vessel Curragh, standing on the back deck of a 32 foot long salmon gillnet fishing boat on his first day of the fishing season, Naknek River fishing district, Bristol Bay, Alaska, USA 26th June 2008
Ben Blakey, Captain of the Fishing Vessel N20, standing on the fly-deck of his 32 foot long salmon gillnet fishing boat on his first day of the fishing season, Naknek River fishing district, Bristol Bay, Alaska, USA 26th June 2008
A lone Bristol Bay gillnet salmon fishing boat, 32 feet long these boats tend to crewed by three people, one captain and two deck hands, Nakenek River fishing district, Bristol Bay, Alaska, USA
A salmon gillnet fishing boat fishing for sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) at twilight, Naknek River fishing district, Bristol Bay, Alaska, USA 30th June 2008
