Meanwhile, total catch for all species approaches 60 million fish as the dungeness crab and lingcod fisheries plug away

Catches had reached over 34,000t by July 8, a 10,000t increase from 2012, the last comparable catch year

Canada officials testing fisheries daily as they expect a possibly gigantic run, although uncertainty reigns since the run prediction ranges from 7.2m to 72 million fish

By Jeanine Stewart

It is certainly too early to make any conclusions about pink’s surprise harvest influx, but as the sockeye harvest hits 29.1m fish as of Wednesday, it is well on its way to meet or exceed the forecast of 33.6m fish while chum harvest starts weak

By Jeanine Stewart

Yet the Bristol Bay's sockeye forecasting research institute maintains its inseason forecast from July 1, which is up 45% over ADF&G's preseason prediction

Sockeye fishing catches in the Port Moller Test Fishery slowed significantly on Monday to the lowest level in nearly two weeks

By Jeanine Stewart

Fish streaming through the Port Moller Test Fishery indicate Alaska's largest sockeye fishery may shape up to be booming compared to recent years

Harvests pushes to 9.8 million fish on Sunday as the catch that day came in just over one million

There has been a rise in the proportion of small-sized sockeye in supplies from major producing regions such as Bristol Bay, Alaska, and Kamchatka, Russia

Predictions for this year's salmon fishery on British Columbia's Fraser River are so massive there's no historical data to use