Copper River Sockeye Harvest Below Forecast For Opener, But Kings Look Good
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [The Cordova Times] by Margaret Bauman - May 21, 2018
Early reports for the 2018 opener of the famed Copper River salmon fishery are that the Chinooks are looking good, but the sockeye harvest is slow.
That was the first assessment from Jeremy Botz, gillnet area management biologist for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game in Cordova, just over 24 hours after the fishery began in drizzly rain, with temperatures in the low 40s.
The catch included some 2,800 Chinooks, and 1,900 sockeyes ...
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