The Togiak herring fishery opened Sunday, the earliest date on record.
![Coastline in Togiak, March 2015. (Photo courtesy of City of Togiak)](https://media.alaskapublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/togiak-coastline.jpg)
The herring showed up unexpectedly last week and have already begun to spawn all over Bristol Bay’s northern coast.
As KDLG’s Dave Bendinger reports,
Fish and Game, processors, and the fleet got caught flatfooted and are hustling out to try and make a season.