After a slow start to the season’s salmon runs, both sockeye and chum harvest are picking up.
A June 24 Hawk Inlet test fishery, performed by Juneau-based chum hatchery Douglas Island Pink and Chum (DIPAC), revealed dramatically low numbers of salmon. The fishery recorded only 38 chums, far below the ten-year average of 2,066, and 19 sockeye, with a ten-year average of 266.
Since then the runs have picked up. A Hawk Inlet test fishery…
