Nushagak Bay

Nushagak Bay /ˈnuːʃɪɡæk/[1] is a large estuary covering over 100 km2 in southwest part of the U.S. state of Alaska.

It opens to Bristol Bay, a large body of water in the eastern Bering Sea north of the Alaska Peninsula.

It is home to the area's largest city, Dillingham, and the bay hosts one of the world's last great sustainable sockeye salmon fisheries.

Bristol Bay residents have historically valued the estuary resources for both subsistence gains and commercial profits.

This lower diversity of Nushagak Bay is most likely due to its low salinity, high turbidity, and silty sediments.

Satellite image of Nushagak Bay
Packrafts in Nushagak Bay
Salting station of C.E. Whitney and Co., loading the barkentine Willie R. Hume , Nushagak Bay, 1900
Cannery worker making boxes at Clarks Point, Nushagak Bay in 1918