Northern Alaska Peninsula has strong 2016 sockeye returns

Wood River sockeye are pictured in this June 2016 photo.
(Photo by KDLG Staff)
 
Bob Murphy, the Area Management Biologist at Port Moller, said the North Peninsula has had a strong harvest so far this summer, with a little more than 3 million sockeye hauled in for the entire North Alaska Peninsula management area, including Nelson Lagoon and the Northwestern District harvests. That’s more than the 2.2 million sockeye harvest forecast.
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