Alaska Salmon Season Subdued So Far - Calm Before the Bristol Bay Storm?
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [SeafoodNews] - June 14, 2018
One month into Alaska’s iconic salmon season and the question is “Where are the fish?” rather than “How high will the catch be?”
Alaska’s Department of Fish and Game forecast a harvest of 149 million salmon in 2018, 51.8 million of which is sockeye. Chipping away at that is a severely reduced Copper River run and shortages in Cook Inlet so far.
Bristol Bay’s harvest forecast of nearly 38 million sockeye is the major driver in the state ...
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