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McDowell Group releases 2017 Fall sockeye market analysis

Sockeye salmon schooling in Hidden Lake. (Photo by Katrina Mueller / USFWS) Kayla Desroches/KMXT Alaska sockeye is seeing a good year. The McDowell Group just released its 2017 Fall Sockeye Market Analysis, which it put together for the Bristol Bay Regional Seafood Development Association. KMXT’s Kayla Desroches spoke about the report with McDowell seafood economist Andy Wink.

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Alaska salmon season a success in global market

Salmon roe. (Photo by Ken Schwarz / Flickr) Kayla Desroches/KMXT It was a generally good salmon season for Alaska, except for one species. “It was a disastrous year for chinook harvest.” That’s Andy Wink, a seafood economist with the consulting firm McDowell Group. Wink says while king salmon may be the most famous salmon species among Alaskans, it also makes …

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