Value of Alaska's 257 Million Salmon Catch Will be Far Under Last Year (Fish Radio)
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Fish Radio with Laine Welch] October 14, 2015
This is Fish Radio. I’m Laine Welch – Alaska’s salmon catch ranks second in the record books. More after this
Alaska’s 2015 salmon catch of nearly 257 million fish is the second largest ever, behind only the record 273 million salmon taken in 2013.
The numbers are still being crunched in terms of values and the average prices paid to fishermen, but those totals will be far less than last year.
The shortfall stems from lower salmon prices across the board, driven especially by the 50-cents a pound base price for a catch of 36 million sockeye salmon taken at Bristol Bay. That harvest totaled about $95 million at the docks, compared to $193 million last year.
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