The Alaska Department of Fish and Game lacks data for its fall chum escapement numbers due to low water and fish wheel displacement from highway construction.
Fish and Game area sport fish biologist Rich Chapell said while one fish wheel remained in place, the other had to be moved mid-season. “There was no current,” Chapell said. “It wasn’t turning and there was a bunch of rock being deposited right next to it.”
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