KMXT 100.1 FM Public Radio in Kodiak, Alaska
The pink salmon catch in the Kodiak management area surpassed the red salmon total on Saturday. Fishermen delivered 279,444 humpies to push the season total over the 2-million mark. Sunday’s delivery of nearly 609,000 pinks brought the humpy total to nearly 2.8-million, and the all-species catch to nearly 5.5-million.
With Sunday’s deliveries, the sockeye catch also went over 2-million.
Chum salmon account for almost 600,000 of the all-species total through Sunday, with just over 61,000 coho and over 12,000 king salmon adding to the total.
The Cape Alitak and Humpy-Deadman section, along with the East and Northeast Kodiak area both account for over 1-million each in pink salmon harvest.
