Salmon runs on the Yukon River continued to be anemic this year, federal and state agencies reported, and there are far too few fish reaching Canada to meet goals set in a treaty between that nation and the United States.
The ongoing fall chum salmon run is the fifth lowest on record for the nearly 2,000-mile river, and the coho run has turned out to be the second lowest on record, the Alaska Department of Fish and Gamein one upriver area, the department reported: the Teedriinjik River, also known as the Chandalar River, a Yukon tributary. A subsistence harvest opened there in mid-September.
The Yukon River’s fall chum run followed a summer run that, though low, was substantially better than those of the past two years, according to aThe summer chum run, as measured by sonar at Pilot Station near the Yukon River’s mouth, was about 846,000 fish, within the range of the preseason forecast and within the goals for “escapement,” the term used to describe salmon returns to spawning grounds, said the report, issued Sept. 30.
Only 58,500 Chinook salmon were counted by sonar passing through the river at Pilot Station, just above last year’s record-low count of 48,439 Chinook according to the joint state-federal report. That is only about a third of the “Then in 2020, something happened in the North Pacific and all the stocks on the Yukon River crashed,” Gleason said.
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