Southeast to see 'excellent' pink haul next year

The Department of Fish and Game is forecasting an "excellent" catch of 55 million pink salmon in 2011 in Southeast Alaska.

A harvest of that size would be well above the recent 10-year average of 40 million pink salmon, the department says.

Southeast produced a ho-hum catch of 23.4 million pinks this year.

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