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The Alaska summer salmon season is expected to last through October. (Photo: Icicle Seafoods)
Alaska salmon season update
UNITED STATES
Wednesday, August 04, 2010, 23:10 (GMT + 9)
Alaska's 2010 summer salmon season kicked off on 13 May and will run through October. Alaskans project to harvest 137 million wild Alaska salmon during this year's fishing season. The projections by species are:
- Alaska King Salmon: 515,000
- Alaska Sockeye Salmon: 45,762,000
- Alaska Coho Salmon: 4,358,000
- Alaska Keta Salmon: 17,970,000
- Alaska Pink Salmon: 69,098,000
As of 30 July, almost 74 million Alaska salmon have been harvested so far.
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Alaska is home to five species of wild salmon: king, sockeye, coho, keta, and pink, and Alaska supplies over 90 per cent of the wild salmon harvested in North America.
All salmon in Alaska are wild. This allows salmon to mature at a natural pace, and swim freely in the pristine waters off Alaska's rugged 34,000-mile coastline. The flavor and color characteristics of wild Alaska salmon come from feeding on a natural diet of marine organisms. Their firm texture is the result of annual migrations in the cold North Pacific.
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Photo Courtesy of FIS Member  Icicle Seafoods, Inc
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