Ekuk is flooded with fishing crews and fish processors during the summer months. The Columbia Ward Fisheries cannery employs approximately 200 workers during the summer, and provides a market for about 80 commercial fishing boats and over 160 beach set net sites. Air transport is the most frequent means of getting to Ekuk. Choggiung Limited owns a private airstrip. Scheduled and charter flights are available from Dillingham during the summer months.
Freight is lightered to the cannery dock.
Clark's Point, two miles north, can be reached by snowmachine during winter.