Bristol Bay Exceeds Pre-season Sockeye Run Forecast, State at 60% of Salmon Harvest Forecast
Bristol Bay’s storied salmon run just keeps shattering records. As of two days ago the run surpassed ADF&G’s jaw-dropping forecast of 75.27 million sockeye by over 100,000 fish. The total of 75.389 million sockeye returning is made up of a harvest of 57.645 million sockeye as of Tuesday, but the fleet is still fishing, pulling in an average of 700,000 fish a day since July 16. If that average continues slowing at the current rate, another week of fishing could bring the fleet...
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