Weak Sockeye Forecast for Cook Inlet This Year
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Peninsula Clarion] by Elizabeth Earl - April 26, 2017
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s 2017 commercial salmon fishery outlook predicts a total run of about 4 million salmon in Upper Cook Inlet, which includes the Kenai, Kasilof and Susitna rivers as well as a number of smaller streams. Commercial fishermen are projected to harvest about 1.7 million of that, the lowest projected harvest in the last 15 years.
It’s largely the Kenai River not living up the recent 10-year average. The river is projected to see a return of 2.2 million sockeye, about 39 percent below the recent 10-year average...
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