Nushagak Bay
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Nushagak Bay is one of the largest estuaries of the U.S. state of Alaska's 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 to much of the world's largest sockeye salmon fishery. Nushagak Bay is downstream of the proposed Pebble Mine, whose tailings storage lake would sit at the headwaters of the Koktuli River, one of the Nushagak River's tributaries. Villages on the Nushagak are among the major opponents of the proposal
The bay runs primarily north-south from the mouth of the Nushagak River to Bristol Bay some 30 miles (48 km) southward. The bay is also fed by several additional rivers, including the Wood, Igushik, and Snake Rivers.
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