Copper River fishery opens for business
On the eve of Alaska’s famed Copper River opener seafood chefs from Seattle to Anchorage were ready with gourmet recipes to celebrate the arrival...
Subsistence opener is Thursday, May 24; commercial opener anticipated May 28
State fisheries officials have announced a Copper River subsistence fishing opener of 12 hours beginning at 7 a.m. on Thursday, May 24, with a...
Sockeye harvest still below forecast
It wasn’t for lack of trying that all the sockeyes and kings delivered to processors in Cordova during the third Copper River salmon opener...
No commercial opener for Copper River salmon fishery
Faced with a sonar count that is the ninth lowest on record since 1978, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game said the Copper...
Sockeyes are elusive, chums looking strong
Another week has gone by with no Copper River district opener, while up in the Coghill District the chum salmon have shown up, weighing...
PWS salmon harvest estimate rises to 2.7 M fish
Prince William Sound’s commercial harvesters delivered an estimated 2,687,658 salmon through June 2, including 1,868,059 chums, 810,906 sockeyes, 7,755 Chinooks, 778 humpies and 160...
PWS commercial catch tops 3.5M fish
Commercial harvests in Prince William Sound have reached 3.5 million salmon, even as the surge in the catch in late June slowed somewhat in...
Coghill chum harvest at 1.8 M
Harvest of chum and sockeye salmon in the Coghill district of Prince William Sound reached an estimated 1,777,250 and 172,799 fish respectively as of...
PWS commercial salmon harvest exceeds 12 M
Daily updates on the Prince William Sound in-season harvest estimates from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game boosted the total commercial salmon harvest...
Slow going toward the 39M harvest forecast
Commercial salmon harvests in Prince William Sound topped the 15.4 million mark through July 31, up by three million fish over the previous week,...
