KETCHIKAN, Alaska – Officials have reduced the estimate for Southeast Alaska’s pink salmon harvest by almost 30 million fish as the summer fishery wraps up its season.
Monday’s purse seine opening will likely be the last of the summer, according to the Ketchikan Daily News (http://bit.ly/1X4jRLO).
Alaska Department of Fish and Game Ketchikan area management biologist Scott Walker said pink salmon catches in Southeast Alaska are just more than 28 million fish this year, about half of what the state projected for 2015.
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