Salmon Season Starts in Two Weeks, Togiak Herring Wrap, Call for Jobs
This is Alaska Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch –
It’s hard to believe but Alaska’s 2019 salmon season officially gets under way in just two weeks!
The first opener for sockeyes and kings at the Copper River near Cordova is set for the week of May 12 where the 500 plus drift fleet is hoping to catch just under 800-thousand reds and 31-thousand king salmon this summer.
Last year’s Copper River fishery totaled 13-thousand kings and just 47-thousand sockeyes, 97 percent below the...
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