The Covid-19 Story Behind Your Wild-Caught Salmon

The world’s largest sockeye fishery evades the pandemic, but another disaster looms

A boat in Bristol Bay, Alaska. Photo courtesy of the Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association

Steve Kurian is a fisherman. The owner, along with his wife Jenn, of Wild for Salmon, a shop in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, that sells wild-caught Alaskan seafood, Kurian travels each summer to Bristol Bay to fish with a small crew on his…