Preliminary numbers show king salmon escapement this year at the second-lowest mark since the state revised standards for the run in 1991.
Rich Chapell, area management biologist for Fish and Game’s Sportfish Division, said workers have counted 1,691 spawning kings in Chilkat River tributaries including Kelsall and Tahini rivers and Big Boulder and Little Boulder creeks. Last year’s escapement was 1,744.
Numbers of spawning king salmon have fallen below the low end of the state’s…
