Alaska Copper River salmon harvests are improving but definitely still under forecast although the season’s second peak expected soon could bolster overall numbers, a biologist said
Jeremy Botz, an Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) area management biologist for the region, told Undercurrent News that 636,000 sockeye have been caught to date, which means the run is “definitely coming in well under forecast at this point.”
At the start of the season (ADF&G) predicted there would be 1.6 million sockeye caught, 201,000 coho salmon and 21,000 chinook salmon this year, although by early June those numbers were already off 45%.
Currently the fishery is in a lull period which will likely change in the next seven to 10 days as releases made four or five years ago from sources such as the Gulkana hatchery are expected to arrive [...]
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