date:Apr 23, 2014
l year. We had a record-setting pink salmon season last year, with some 90 million harvested in Prince William Sound alone, said Eric Volk, fisheries scientist for ADFG.
The projected pink salmon harvest is around 67 percent lower than 2013, which was 226.3 million.
With the quota cuts, there is going to be a higher demand and less supply. An increase in prices is not going to be surprising, said Mike Warren, buyer and VP of quality control for distributor Tradex Foods.
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