SE Alaska's Commercial King Salmon Trollers Wrap Up Quickest Season in a Decade with Strong Catches
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Alaska Public Radio] by Joe Viechnicki - March 31, 2015
Southeast Alaska’s commercial salmon trollers are heading back into port now that the winter season has closed. Thanks to strong catches of king salmon on the outer coast near Sitka.
The season was closed at midnight on Wednesday, March 25th. That’s the earliest closure on record by just over two weeks.
“And the previous record for closing early was set 10 years ago, April 9th 2005,” Pattie Skannes, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s troll management biologist for Southeast...
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