Preliminary harvest summaries released today by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game put the commercial catch at 3,130,000 sockeye salmon, 862,000 chums, 55,000 kings, 44,000 pinks and 3,000 cohos, a total of 4,094,000 wild Alaska salmon.
A week earlier the totals were 1,050,000 reds, 694,000 chums, 17,000 kings and fewer than 1,000 each coho and pink salmon, a statewide total of 1,761,000 salmon.
State fisheries officials haven't said so officially yet, but for some areas of the state, the season is getting a busy one already.
The Copper River harvest through today stood at 1,038,000 reds, 16,000 kings and 11,000 chums, while the Coghill district of Prince William Sound had 661,000 chums and 11,000 reds.
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