Salmon forecast looks good for 2004.

• Author: Pilkington, Steve
• Position: Fishing - Brief Article

The Alaska Department of Fish & Game announced the Alaska statewide commercial salmon harvest is projected to increase during 2004. The pink salmon harvest is expected to be slightly lower than 2003 while sockeye and chum salmon harvests are expected to be higher.

The 2004 commercial catch all-species projection of 196 million is distributed as 518,000 chinook salmon, 50.2 million sockeye salmon, 5.1 million coho salmon, 119 million pink...