Thursday, January 3, 2013

Here's your Copper River forecast

The state has released its 2013 salmon forecast for the famed Copper River.

Biologists project a commercial catch of 1.3 million sockeye and 19,800 Chinook.

Last season, fishermen ended up with a dandy 1.86 million sockeye and a scant 11,617 Chinook.

The forecast also includes numbers for Prince William Sound.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

that forcast is for 70,000 more Copper river reds than was forcasted last year.

Anonymous said...

We'll see when the salmon return.

Anonymous said...

It's hard to get excited about the ADF&G salmon forecasts because they let Alaska down with their management of the King Salmon.