Copper River Season Opens on Thursday
SEAFOODNEWS.COM By Peggy Parker - May 11, 2015
The world’s first wild salmon return of the year is underway as chinook and sockeye enter the Copper River in central Alaska. The season begins this Thursday, May 14, at 7 a.m. Alaska Daylight Time.
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game will open the waters off the mouth of the Copper River for a 12-hour commercial fishing period on Thursday. Their next announcement will be on Saturday, May 16.
ADF&G’s Miles Lake sonar camp was deployed on May 6 and the crew is working to deploy the north and south bank sonars. The in-river sonar shows identifiable sockeyes and chinook as they swim through the first bottleneck upriver from the ocean. ADF&G technicians then count each fish, allowing the biologists to know when to open the fishery...
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