date:Apr 28, 2014
The Copper River, Alaska fishing season which kicks off the start of the Alaska salmon season is tentatively scheduled to open on 15 May.
The Alaska Department of Fish Game (ADFG) will announce the actual opening date on 5 May.
ADFG is predicting the 2014 sockeye salmon catch will be around 1.8 million fish, while the king salmon catch will be about 33,000 fish.
However, ADFG is predicting an overall decrease in the commercial salmon harvest of 47 percent. Although the projected Alaska soc