Salmon Catches, Values Decline Across the Board for 2020
This is Alaska Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch.
Decreases across the board sums up Alaska’s 2020 salmon season.
A summary of the preliminary harvests and values by the Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game shows that Alaska’s total catch came in at just under 117 million salmon, a 44% decrease from last season’s haul of 208.3 million fish and the 13th lowest on record.
The salmon value of $295.2 million is a whopping 56% decrease from last season’s $673.4 million, and when adjusted for inflation, the lowest value since...
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