Start to Alaska Salmon Season Just One Week Away
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Fish Radio with Laine Welch] - May 10, 2018
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch – It’s nearly salmon time!
The official start of Alaska’s salmon season is just one week away with the first 12 hour opener on May 17 at the Copper River near Cordova. The catch there this year calls for 19,000 kings and just under one million sockeye salmon (942,000).
Statewide, Alaska’s 2018 salmon harvest is projected at 149 million fish, down 34 percent from last year’s take of 226 million ...
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