More than USD 20 million (EUR 14.7 million) in federal fishery disaster funds will be distributed in Alaska in response to poor king salmon runs in recent years.
KYUK says federal officials and 11 groups have worked out how some USD 20.8 million (EUR 20.6 million) in disaster funds will be split.
The Yukon-Kuskokwim region will receive a little more than USD 9.6 million (EUR 7.1 million) of those funds and Cook Inlet will get slightly more than USD 11.1 million (EUR 8.2 million).
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