Salmon, as one major processor observed, is always complicated.
The Prince William Sound commercial salmon forecast was still being calculated in late December, with state fisheries biologists planning to have it out by mid-January 2018.
Processors were upbeat, meanwhile, about the Bristol Bay sockeye salmon forecast issued in November, which predicts a run of 51.28 million red salmon, and a Bristol Bay harvest of over 39 million fish. That forecast came on the heels of ...