While Alaska is expected to land less sockeye salmon this year than it did in 2015, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) has predicted the 2016 harvest will be the second-largest of the past two decades.
The total sockeye harvest is expected to decline 11 percent to 47.7 million salmon in 2016, but salmon fishermen last year collectively posted their largest harvest since 1995. Indeed, the 2016 sockeye forecast is still well above the recent average harvest level.
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