Cook Inlet's commercial setnetters manage respectable 2014 harvest amid number of restrictions
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [The Peninsula Clarion] by Molly Dischner - August 22, 2014
The last of the Upper Cook Inlet East Side setnetters pulled their nets out of the water for good Aug. 6 after harvesting almost a million fish this season.
Setnetters harvested about 930,300 salmon in the Kasilof, Kenai, and East Forelands sections and the Kasilof River Special Harvest Area this summer, about one-third of the 3.1 million salmon caught commercially in Upper Cook Inlet.
The setnet harvest included about 704,272 sockeye, 216,233 pinks, 6,461 coho, 2,055 kings, and 792 chums...
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