Upper Cook Inlet Harvest Forecast Is 1.7 Million Sockeyes
![Commercial fishermen and personal use dipnetters enjoy fishing the peak of the Kenai River sockeye salmon. Image-Pat Shields, ADF&G Soldotna. Upper Cook Inlet Harvest Forecast Is 1.7 Million Sockeyes](https://alaska-native-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/cook-inlet-sport-commercial.jpg)
Biologists with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game are forecasting a run of some 4.0 million sockeye salmon to Upper Cook Inlet in 2017, with a commercial harvest of 1.7 million fish. That forecasted harvest is 1.2 million fish less than the 20-year average harvest. For 2016, the red salmon harvest by all user […]