Alaska’s 2018 Salmon Season Among Highest In Value
November 26, 2018 | 1 min to read
Alaska’s 2018 commercial salmon harvest, excluding 2016, was the smallest in 34 years, but the seventh most valuable since 1975, earning harvesters $595.6 million.
That’s according to a report issued on Nov. 19 by the McDowell Group in Juneau on behalf of the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute, based on preliminary data from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, which will be revised in the coming year.
The statewide sockeye salmon harvest was the second most valuable in 26 years and the chum harvest the third most valuable since 1975, said Garrett Evridge, an economist for the McDowell Group.
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