Alaska General Seafoods posts $1.20 per lb advance price for Bristol Bay sockeye (Fish Radio)
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Fish Radio with Laine Welch] July 17, 2014 This is Fish Radio.
An advance sockeye price of $1.20 a pound has been posted at Bristol Bay by Alaska General Seafoods, with an extra 15 cents for chilled fish. Other processors are likely to match, according to reports from the Alaska Independent Fishermen's Marketing Association. That compares to a base price of $1.50 a pound for Bristol Bay reds last year. The Bay catch yesterday was approaching 28 million sockeyes, 11 million more than forecasted and the fish are still coming.
Lots of competing red salmon rivals are in the works this year. The sockeye run at the lower Columbia River’s Bonneville Dam set a record last week topping half a million fish, the most since the dam was completed in 1938...(more)
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