Commercial fishermen engaged in the Bristol Bay salmon fishery had a record year in 2018, and in more ways than one. State biologists say the 2018 run of Bristol Bay sockeye salmon was the largest on record, dating back to 1893, and 69 percent above the 36.9 million average run of the last 20 years. […]
The season may be slowing, but the fish are still running. Slightly more than 150,000 salmon were harvested in Alaska last week, including 70,000 keta, 60,000 coho, and 20,000 sockeyes. That’s according to Garrett Evridge of the McDowell Group in Juneau, Alaska, who prepares the weekly salmon harvest updates for the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute. […]
Troopers donated 88 Sockeye (Red) Salmon to charity after a seizure in Cottonwood Creek on Monday, it was revealed on the trooper dispatch. After receiving a complaint of illegal fishing in Cottonwood Creek in Wasilla this week, Alaska Wildlife Troopers, with the assistance of AST, opened an investigation into the complaint. The investigation would determine that […]
Commercial harvests of wild salmon in Alaska rose by more than 10 million fish between July 17 and July 22, bringing the total preliminary catch estimate to 60,530,000 fish. That included nearly 43 million sockeyes, 9.1 million chums, roughly 8 million pink, 356,000 silver and 179 Chinooks, according to estimates by the Alaska Department of […]