Through to the end of July, the Copper River District’s commercial salmon fishery was open 756 hours, 96 hours more than the recent 10-year average. However, the sockeye salmon harvest of 1.14 million fish was 22 percent less than the previous 10-year (2006–2015) harvest average of 1.46 million sockeye salmon, according to the latest 2016 Prince William Sound Salmon Season Summary issued by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G).
At the same time, the average sockeye salmon weig…
