2019 Forecast for Total Run of Pink Salmon in PWS is 23.5M, Copper River Sockeye Run at 1.4M
Managing Alaska’s salmon fisheries in the post-Blob era is complicated by a whole host of different “what if’s?” focused on how the anomalous heat wave that hit the Gulf of Alaska in 2014-2016 affected the ocean environment for salmon.
Biologists in Southcentral Alaska have estimated a return of pink salmon to Prince William Sound of 23.5 million fish, nearly twice as much as the recent 10 odd-year average (1999–2017) PWS wild pink salmon total run...
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