No answers for low Kuskokwim king run

King salmon at a market in Seattle. (Creative Commons photo by Jill /Blue Moonbeam Studio)The driving question over the last several years, and the one that’s being asked again as biologists warn that 2017 could be the lowest king salmon run on record, is: why is the king run on the Kuskokwim River so low?
“The simple answer is we really don’t know,” Zach Liller said. He’s the leading Kuskokwim researcher for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. &l