Last year’s haul was worth about $25 million. This year will probably be better.
“This has been a great chum return and it’s still ongoing,” said Susan Doherty, who runs Ketchikan-based Southern Southeast Regional Aquaculture Association.
“It’s a very strong run,” Doherty said. “We’re very pleased after the last couple of years, where that has not been the case.” “It was the latest, slowest start ever, for all of our sites,” said Scott Wagner, NSRAA’s general manager.“I think we might actually hit forecast,” Wagner said. “But that’s saying something; we haven’t hit forecast in three or four years.”
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