In a last hurrah for 2018, commercial harvesters in the Copper River added another 2,000 cohos to their silver salmon catch, to bring their total harvest of silvers to 302,000 fish.
As of Oct. 2, the overall total for Prince William Sound was 29,109,000 Pacific salmon, including 23.856 million humpies, 3.437 million chums, 1.301 million reds, 508,000 silvers and 7,000 kings, according to preliminary estimates by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
Waters of the Copper River will remain open for subsistence fishing from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. on all Saturdays through Oct. 31, ADF&G fishery biologists at Cordova said.
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