The Mudflats

Tiptoeing Through the Muck of Alaskan Politics

salmon

Something’s Fishy on the Yukon.

Ready for some fishy number crunching? The run of chinook (king) salmon up the Yukon river historically numbers about 250,000 fish.  Last year’s run was 180,000.  The year before was 175,000.  It takes a minimum of 170,000 fish to sustain the fishery for subsistence use, and to ensure that there are enough fish to repopulate [...]