Both the fall chum salmon and the coho salmon runs on the Yukon River remain too low to open subsistence harvest.
Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologists say they don’t expect either to reach their goals for fish reaching their spawning grounds.
The fall chum that have returned are slightly older than the historical average and with slightly fewer females than the historical average. The fish are also smaller, measuring 26 millimeters less than their historical average length. The Yukon River coho salmon run is also far below its average run size but coming in higher numbers than last year’s record low. The Pilot Station sonar has counted 43,000 coho, compared to a historical average of 73,000 by this time.
At Russian Mission, state biologists have attached radio tags to over 118 coho as of Aug. 19. Fish and Game asks anyone catching a coho carrying a tag to call the department at 907-459-7274.
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