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Gulf of Alaska salmon stocks lower, but Copper River could rebound

On June 12, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game said that sonar counts had detected the passage of 217,940 sockeye into the Copper River district as of June 11

By Jason Smith | June 15, 2021 16:06 BST
Trident Seafoods' Vic Scheibert, outgoing president of Alaska operations, and Joe Bundrant, CEO, holding up the first Copper River salmon to arrive in Seattle, Washington, in 2020. Photograph courtesy of Alaskan Airlines.
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Don't count out Copper River just yet. Although sockeye salmon runs in the first commercial sockeye salmon fishery of summer season in the US state of Alaska have been well below forecast to date, recent data show that fish passage is rising. [...]

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