Researchers are watching sockeye sizes

Wood River sockeye are pictured in this June 2016 photo.
(Photo by KDLG Staff)
Alaska’s sockeye salmon came back shorter and lighter than usual last year. As sockeye runs return this summer, biologists have been keeping an eye on their size, tracking whether they’ll be like last year – shorter and lighter than average – or back to their normal weights.
Longtime Bristol Bay fisherman John Bennett said that at least for the start of the Bristol Bay season, the sockeye in hi