Talking about AK

The commercial Chinook salmon fishery in Alaska could almost be considered a niche fishery at best considering of the billion pounds of salmon harvested in Alaska in 2015 the Chinook fishery represented less than 1% of AK total harvest of salmon.

Of the 1.1 billion pounds of salmon harvested in the US--- Alaska’s harvest represents almost 98%, WA nearly 2% with OR, CA, and Great Lakes filling in with very little.

Maybe it would be a good time to stop harvesting Chinook in AK to let depleted stocks in AK rebuild, while letting our home bred Chinook return home.

Numbers from NOAA.