Statewide commercial harvests of wild salmon rose above 71 million fish on July 22, including nearly 29 million salmon in Bristol Bay, but Copper River sockeye prices were holding their own, despite the increasing competition.
The best deals were at box stores like Costco Wholesale, in Anchorage, where fillets of neatly packaged Copper River reds were $9.95 a pound.
At Pike Place Fish Market in Seattle, whole fresh Copper River sockeyes were $77.94 per fish, and fresh Copper River sockeye fillets were $19.99 a pound.
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