# Bristol Bay daily run summary, 2026 Cumulative commercial harvest by district, day by day, from ADF&G's Blue Sheet. Escapement and total-run counts stay with ADF&G's own daily run summary _Data through Aug 27, 2026 · source last checked Aug 26, 2026, 7:00 PM PT · page revised Aug 27, 2026_ > The Bristol Bay sockeye harvest stands at 29.7M fish, 92% of its 32.3M fish in-area expected harvest. Egegik leads the districts at 9.03M fish. The Bay has added 0 fish since Aug 20, 2026. ## The numbers | District | Sockeye to date | All species to date | Sockeye added since Aug 20, 2026 | First reported | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Togiak | 168K fish | 257K fish | 0 fish | on or before Jul 10, 2026 | | Nushagak | 8.97M fish | 9.16M fish | 0 fish | on or before Jul 10, 2026 | | Naknek-Kvichak | 6.15M fish | 6.15M fish | 0 fish | Jul 22, 2026 | | Egegik | 9.03M fish | 9.03M fish | 0 fish | on or before Jul 10, 2026 | | Ugashik | 5.36M fish | 5.36M fish | 0 fish | on or before Jul 10, 2026 | | Bristol Bay total | 29.7M fish | 30.0M fish | 0 fish | on or before Jul 10, 2026 | ### The Bay day by day: each Blue Sheet reading of cumulative Bristol Bay sockeye and what it added over the reading before it. Gaps in the dates are days ADF&G's report was not captured, so an added figure spans the whole gap. An outsized step is usually a district being published for the first time rather than a day's fishing. | Blue Sheet date | Sockeye to date | Added over prior reading | All species to date | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Aug 27, 2026 | 29.7M fish | 0 fish | 30.0M fish | | Aug 26, 2026 | 29.7M fish | 0 fish | 30.0M fish | | Aug 25, 2026 | 29.7M fish | 0 fish | 30.0M fish | | Aug 24, 2026 | 29.7M fish | 0 fish | 30.0M fish | | Aug 23, 2026 | 29.7M fish | 0 fish | 30.0M fish | | Aug 22, 2026 | 29.7M fish | 0 fish | 30.0M fish | | Aug 21, 2026 | 29.7M fish | 0 fish | 30.0M fish | | Aug 20, 2026 | 29.7M fish | 0 fish | 30.0M fish | | Aug 19, 2026 | 29.7M fish | 0 fish | 30.0M fish | | Aug 18, 2026 | 29.7M fish | 0 fish | 30.0M fish | | Aug 17, 2026 | 29.7M fish | 0 fish | 30.0M fish | | Aug 16, 2026 | 29.7M fish | 0 fish | 30.0M fish | | Aug 15, 2026 | 29.7M fish | 0 fish | 30.0M fish | | Aug 14, 2026 | 29.7M fish | 0 fish | 30.0M fish | ### Bristol Bay harvest against the preseason forecast, by species (in-area commercial-comparable denominators) | Species | Harvest to date | Preseason forecast | % of forecast | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Chinook | 1K fish | 6K fish | 17% | | Sockeye | 29.7M fish | 32.3M fish | 92% | | Coho | 1K fish | 28K fish | 4% | | Pink | 30K fish | 256K fish | 12% | | Chum | 250K fish | 389K fish | 64% | | All species | 30.0M fish | 32.9M fish | 91% | ## About the Bristol Bay daily run summary This is the Bristol Bay commercial harvest read day by day, district by district, off ADF&G's Blue Sheet. It is the number a permit holder, a tender operator and a buyer all check in the morning during the run, because it is the only Bay figure that updates while fish are still moving. Every value is thousands of fish, cumulative for the season to date, and preliminary. ## What is on this page and what is not The Run tracks **harvest**: common-property and hatchery cost-recovery fish delivered to buyers, as ADF&G reports them. It does not track escapement, the fish allowed past the fishery to spawn, and it does not compute a total run. ADF&G does publish all of that for the Bay. Its own [Bristol Bay Daily Salmon Run Summary](https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=commercialbyareabristolbay.harvestsummary) carries daily and cumulative escapement, in-river estimates and a total run figure by district and by individual river, including the Kvichak, Naknek, Egegik, Ugashik, Wood, Igushik, Alagnak, Nushagak and Togiak. If escapement or total run is what you need, that is the page to read. Nothing here is added to anything there. Escapement and harvest are different measurements of different fish, and this site never folds one into the other. ## Why a district cell can be blank A blank in the district table is ADF&G not publishing a figure, not a district that caught nothing. The Blue Sheet suppresses a cell at the source when too few permit holders fished for a number to be printed without exposing an individual business, and a district can also simply not be reported yet. That is why the table carries a *first reported* column: when a district appears it can arrive with a large cumulative total already on it, and the Bay total steps up with it on the same day. Read that step as reporting catching up, not as a week's fishing. The daily ledger above shows those steps plainly. One limit on that column, stated rather than papered over: our record of the Blue Sheet begins Jul 10, 2026, the first day this site pulled the report. A district reading "on or before" that date was already publishing when we started, and we cannot say from our own data when it first appeared. A district showing a later date genuinely appeared then. ## Reading the Bay against its forecast Scope note: ADF&G's 2026 Bristol Bay sockeye forecast is a 33.53 million fish harvestable surplus that includes about 1.27 million Bristol Bay-origin sockeye taken in the South Alaska Peninsula June fishery. Because this page's harvest is the Bristol Bay management-area catch, the percent of forecast divides by the 32.26 million fish in-area expected harvest, not the 33.53 million fish total surplus. That South Peninsula interception is tracked separately under Alaska Peninsula; the full 33.53 million fish surplus is on the forecast page. ## Where the rest of the season is The Bay is one of eight management areas. For Bristol Bay against its full preseason forecast by species, see the [Bristol Bay harvest page](/district/bristol-bay). For every area at once, see the [season scoreboard](/scoreboard/statewide), and for the April projection the whole season is measured against, the [preseason forecast](/forecast/preseason). For how the underlying report works, read [the ADF&G Blue Sheet guide](/guides/how-to-read-the-blue-sheet). ## About this data - Source: ADF&G Preliminary Alaska Commercial Salmon Catch Report (Blue Sheet), over the April preseason forecast - Series: Cumulative commercial harvest by Bristol Bay district, with the day-over-day change - Basis: Common-property and hatchery cost-recovery catch, preliminary; harvest only, escapement not included - Geography: Bristol Bay management area, by district - Unit: thousand fish - Calculation period: Cumulative in-season, read day by day - Last observation: Aug 27, 2026 - Update frequency: Up to twice daily in season --- Cite: Bristol Bay commercial salmon harvest: 29.7M fish sockeye, 92% of the 32.3M fish in-area forecast as of Aug 27, 2026 (The Run). 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