Pink salmon season forecast looks positive

Pink salmon splashes through shallows. (K. Sowl / Alaska Region U.S. Fish and Wildlife)It looks like numbers at this early point in the pink salmon season are settling back into a normal pattern for the Kodiak region.
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The pink season in the Gulf of Alaska was so bad in 2016 that the federal government issued a disaster declaration for the fishery.
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Alaska Department of Fish and Game Area Management Biologist, James Jackson, says at the sa