Pink Harvest Picks Up Monday

Jay Barrett/KMXT

Pink salmon deliveries rebounded a bit after a relatively slow weekend in the Kodiak Management Area. According to Fish and Game figures, 299,434 humpies were delivered Monday, bringing the season harvest ever closer to 5-million.

Sockeye deliveries were well over 90,000, bumping the season haul to 1.6-million, while the chum catch yesterday was over 25,000, boosting the harvest total to over 410,000.

There were 4,480 silvers and 46 kings delivered, with season totals of 147,000 and 6,060, respectively.

The all-species harvest to-date is over 7.1-million.