Alaskan and Canadian Delegates Hashing Out Plan to Restore Yukon River Chinook Stocks
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [CBC] April 14, 2015
Delegates from Yukon and Alaska are in Whitehorse this week to come up with a conservation strategy for the declining Chinook salmon stocks in the Yukon River for the coming season.
Chinook, or King, salmon runs in the Yukon River have dwindled in recent years. In the 1990s, the Chinook run averaged more than 300,000 fish. Since 2008, fewer than half that number have returned to the Yukon River.
"We really don't know what the answer is," said Victor Lord, an Alaskan adviser to the Yukon River Panel...
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