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The 2020 Alaska salmon season is off to a slow start, but it is too early to draw any conclusions, according to an economist with McDowell Group in Anchorage. Garrett Evridge writes a weekly statewide newsletter that updates salmon harvests for the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute. In this week’s report, Evridge explains that in an average year less than 10 …

A pair of spawning salmon. Katrina Mueller / USFWS Kayla Desroches/KMXT With the salmon season wrapping up, state agencies are taking a look at how different management areas fared. Last week, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game released preliminary data about the 2017 state commercial salmon harvests. Out of a total of about 31,000,000 million fish caught in Kodiak, …