Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Bummer forecast for Stikine kings

The 2014 run forecast for large Stikine River king salmon is 26,000 fish, too few to open fisheries in early May, the Department of Fish and Game says. More details here.
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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousDecember 10, 2013 at 4:21 PM

    Now they will underestimate it for the next seven years.

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  2. AnonymousDecember 10, 2013 at 9:58 PM

    Next they will announce the same thing about the Taku River ... nothing new here.

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  3. AnonymousDecember 11, 2013 at 9:03 AM

    Too ba,d the manager of sitka herring is notin charge,then we could fish the run into extinction

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  4. AnonymousDecember 11, 2013 at 10:16 AM

    need to stop fishing the river on the Canada side!!!! that the problem they are killing the run

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  5. AnonymousJune 19, 2014 at 9:57 AM

    2014 in season run size for stikine kings came in at 25000. The in river joint Alaskan and Canadian test fishery is the only thing that can confirm this run size and be sure not to over harvest these awesome salmon. Kings for the future!

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