Alaska Salmon Season Officially Begins Next Week
Alaska’s first fresh salmon of the season always creates extreme interest for restaurat
Alaska’s 2023 salmon season officially gets underway on Monday, May 15 with the arrival of sockeyes and Chinook to the Copper River near Cordova.
State fishery managers have announced there will be a 12-hour opener starting at 7am for the drift gillnet fleet.
The 2023 Copper River sockeye salmon total run forecast is estimated at 1,646,000 fish, which is 14% below the 10-year average. That would produce a commercial harvest of 987,000 sockeye salmon for the season...
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