Yukon Hit Hard From No Chums, Pinks Surge at Norton Sound
No Alaska region has been hit harder by dismal salmon returns this summer than communities on the Yukon River. The summer chum run of just 153,000 is the lowest on record.
Serena Fitka, director of the Yukon River Drainage Fisheries Association, spoke to KYUK in Bethel.
“So, we’re talking really low numbers. This is really quite scary for everyone. These runs are low enough that no one on the river is subsistence fishing, and so it’s very dismal. Everybody in the communities, on the full river drainage, are feeling...
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