Wild Salmon is a truly unique and special fish.

Regarded by chefs, environmentalists, gourmands and nutritionists alike as the best salmon to be found, it accounts for only 20% of the salmon consumed, the remainder being farmed.

Each May to Septmber the wild salmon run on the West Coast of North America sees the fish migrate from the open ocean back up the rivers to the lakes of their birth to lay their eggs, completing the natural life cycle unique to wild salmon.

The rivers throb and churn with the vast group of fish swimming upstream to spawn.

Bristol Bay, is the Easternmost Arm of the Bering Sea and hosts the world’s largest commercial sockeye salmon fishery.

The commercial fishing fleet is some 1,400 boats strong comprising some of the most passionate fishers in North America.

Reba Temple comes from a family of fishermen. She is the captain of the F/V Cloud 9 and is going on her 14th year of fishing in Bristol Bay.

https://bristolbaysockeye.org/reba-temple

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