Egegik
The Tarupiat, “the people” of Egegik, live in the focal point of an ancient crossroads of the Alaska Peninsula. Travelers representing many cultures have passed through Egegik for many moons.
The Village Enterprise
Egegik’s population ranges from under 100 year-round to an additional 1,000 to 2,000 people who work in the village’s primary economic enterprise, the summer commercial salmon fishing industry.
The Egegik River produced 16,468,800 sockeye salmon in 2022.
Our People
Based on archaeological evidence, the Tarupiat have been in Egegik for 9,000 years. We are resilient, innovative, strong, and descendants of people who were both merchants and warriors.
By the mid-1800s, Scandinavian workers had come to commercial fish out of Egegik. In 1895, a saltery and fish processing operation was established in Egegik, the first step in Egegik’s commercial fishing and processing enterprise.