The state has terminated an aquaculture group’s contract for the Lutak king salmon enhancement project, where recent accidents are pushing up per-fish costs.
With a projected return rate of less than one percent, each adult king salmon returning from the Lutak project this year will cost between $60 and $120. But when fish return from this year’s diminished release, they’ll cost the state between $187.50 and $375 each.
The Lutak project, in its third year,…
