Stuffed With Salmon: Brown Bear ‘747’ Declared Champion of Annual ‘Fat Bear Week’ Ahead of Hibernation

Courtesy of L. Law, Katmai National Park and Preserve

This year’s Alaskan salmon run has—absolutely, claws-itively—been a boon for brown bears.

Fat Bear Week, an annual competition inaugurated in 2014, was launched to celebrate brown bears that feast upon the bountiful sockeye salmon that make the perilous migration upriver to spawn every year at Katmai National Park.