Fraser sockeye run wraps up about 10% below preseason estimate
SEAFOODNEWS.COM by Peggy Parker Oct 1, 2014
The final meeting of the Fraser River Panel last week signaled the end of the run and the last remaining sockeye entering the river and beginning their upstream migration.
The Panel made a final in-season estimate change to the summer run size estimate by increasing it by 100,000 fish, from 7.9 million fish to 8 million. That makes the final in-season run size estimate 21,033,500, which is about 10% lower than the preseason estimate of around 23 million fish.
The run is made up of four management groups....
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