Alaska Sockeye Harvest Breaks All-Time Top 5; Pinks Picking Up
September 11, 2019 | 1 min to read
The 2019 salmon season has seen plenty of fish return to the state, but far from evenly across regions.
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As of Sept. 10, commercial fishermen across Alaska have landed 198.4 million salmon of all five species, about 8 percent less than the preseason forecast of 213.2 million. Most of that shortfall is in pink and chum salmon, which haven’t delivered on their forecasts so far, but a surplus of sockeye salmon helped make up for some of that gap.
Statewide, commercial fishermen have landed more than 55.1 million sockeye, about 9 percent more than last year and 5 million more than the preseason forecast.
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