Pink forecast, Bristol Bay value, Exxon Valdez payments

摘要

Hot pinks to cool off: Southeast Alaska produced an extraordinary haul of pink salmon this past season, with purse seiners netting 54.4 million fish. The pinks powered the seine fishery, which also takes chums and other species, to a record ex-vesselvalue of $105.7 million. Next season, look for things to simmer down. The Department of Fish and Game is forecasting a weak harvest of 17 million pinks, which would be far below the recent 10-year average of 40 million.