The Bristol Bay fishing season is wrapping up. The bay had a record sockeye salmon return this season. The salmon run, upwards of 70 million, was far and away the largest in recorded history.

Alaska’s Bristol Bay sockeye salmon harvest is forecast to tumble next year to some 36.6 million fish, according to Alaska state Department of Fish and Game biologists.

I’ve been cooking with wild-caught Bristol Bay salmon in my home and restaurants for decades — there’s nothing else like it. The long-term health of the fishery, well-being of Indigenous ...