Kvichak Bay

Kvichak Bay is an arm of Bristol Bay in southwestern Alaska, receiving the waters of the Kvichak and Naknek rivers. Salmon travel from the bay up these rivers toward their spawning grounds in inland lakes. For thousands of years the salmon runs have sustained Yup'ik, Alutiiq and Dena'ina communities around Bristol Bay, whose homes and fishing places link the coast with the river valleys beyond it.