Fisheries
Salmon season wraps up Alaska’s 2018 summer salmon fishery is about wrapped up. The harvest will be well below the preseason forecasts due to unexpected timing of some runs, which disrupted fishing. Sockeye catches are coming in on target at about 50 million fish but pink and silver harvests are below expectations. Bristol Bay had its second-best sockeye harvest, however. Fall fisheries pick up statewide With summer over the state’s busy fall fisheries are getting underway. Harvesters in Southeast are…