This summer’s Southeast pink salmon catch is predicted at about 10% above average and 40% higher than last year, with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game issuing a harvest forecast of 29 million pinks.
That would be slightly above the most recent 10-year average of 26 million fish and substantially higher than last year’s commercial pink salmon harvest of just over 20 million fish, more than 90% of which were caught by the seine…