Copper River salmon harvest flows into marketplace
Happy days are here again for seafood aficionados hankering for a taste of fresh Copper River sockeye and Chinook salmon.
Promising news on pink salmon disaster relief funds
As the season is either underway or close at hand for many of you, I wanted to provide a short update about where we are with the 2016 pink salmon disaster relief funding.
Copper River salmon hits market, restaurants
Copper River salmon is back on the market and in restaurants from Anchorage to Seattle and beyond, in the wake of the first 12-hour opener of the Copper River fishery, which yielded an estimated 2,266 Chinooks and 19,683 sockeyes.
Copper River opener begins with much anticipation
Every spring, there’s a lot of anticipation about the upcoming salmon run, the Prince William Sound and Copper River Salmon forecast, and how the Alaska Department of Fish and Game will manage the fishery.
CRWP offers day of fishing web recycling
Copper River Watershed Project and Alaska Brewing Co. are sponsoring a fishing web recycling event from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 18, behind the harbormaster’s office in Cordova.
Copper River salmon headed for Anchorage, Seattle
Commercial harvesters were headed for the fishing grounds, while commercial pilots were preparing to load up fresh catch kings and sockeyes in the wake of the celebrated Copper River salmon opener May 16.
Copper River opener set for May 16
With less than a week until the Copper River salmon fishery opens, on May 16, the excitement as already spread far beyond Prince William Sound.
Cordova city council approves raw fish tax
An ordinance to tax harvesters 0.5 percent of the value of fish delivered in town has been approved on a 4-2 vote by the...
Commercial salmon harvest forecasts looking up
Alaska fishermen could catch 85 percent more salmon this year (nearly a hundred million more) if state forecasts hold true.That’s good news for fishermen...
Salmon forecast looks pretty encouraging
In the wake of a 2018 fishing season that left many scraping to get through the winter, forecasts for the upcoming commercial season bode...