Record 74 Million Sockeye Run Forecast for 2022, Low Return for Pinks, as Expected
Alaska’s Department of Fish and Game has released their final “Run Forecasts and Harvest Projections for 2022 Alaska Salmon Fisheries and Review of the 2021 Season” and once again Bristol Bay is outdoing its own record of consistently massive returns.
The forecast for the statewide total salmon return is lower than last years by 800,000 salmon, but it doesn’t detract much from the forecasted run in the Bay.
The 2021 inshore Bristol Bay sockeye salmon run of 67.7 million fish is the largest total run on record ...
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