August 6, 2013 — Recently, a Bristol Bay set net fisherman and photographer gave fans of the New Yorker Magazine an up-close and personal look at the world’s largest sockeye salmon fishery, through the smartphone application Instagram.
The fishermen and processors who return to Bristol Bay every summer, as well as local residents, are all too familiar with the amount of work that goes into preparing for the short-lived Bristol Bay salmon season. The stresses that go along with getting a boat ready, finding a reliable crew, and waiting an extra 30 minutes for a D&D pizza are just part of the game. But what can we expect a stock trader in New York City or a Google executive in Silicon Valley to know about the Bristol Bay salmon fishery?
As of writing this story, the New Yorker's Instagram account has 80,482 active followers. For a while now, they've been doing Instagram Takeovers, where they hand over the password to their Instagram account to professional photographers.
As he and his crew prepared for this year's fishing season on the Kvijack River, Corey Arnold, a commercial set net fisherman and photographer from Portland, Oregon, was given the opportunity to post photographs on behalf of the New Yorker Magazine through their Instagram account.
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