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Article: Stikine, Taku river kings get head start to market: May opening gives revived fishery, dormant since the 1970s, a jump on Copper River.(Brief Article)
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- National Fisherman
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- July 1, 2005
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Copper River king salmon won't be the first fresh gillnet fish to hit hungry markets anymore.
With a commercial opening scheduled for May 2, a revitalized fishery for king salmon in the Stikine and Taku Rivers in Southeast Alaska will offer large fillets two weeks earlier than the fishery at Copper River.
The Southeast fishery had been closed since the mid-1970s as part of a program to rebuild ailing king stocks throughout Southeast Alaska and Canada. In 1999, an agreement under the Pacific Salmon Treaty prohibited developing or conducting commercial fisheries without consent from all parties and until the two countries could work out an abundance-based ...