Sonora Rodriguez-Ashby admires a few of their family's subsistence sockeye caught up the Stikine River on July 17 and 18. Her father Alex Rodriguez holds up the fish.
The state forecasted a very healthy run of sockeye salmon in the Stikine River this season, which opened to subsistence fishing June 21. They projected around 176,000 sockeye, which is about 45% more than the average of 121,000 fish.
Although state biologists track the run, the U.S. Forest Service manages the subsistence fishery in the river near Wrangell Island. Ashley Bolwerk, a subsistence biologist for the federal agency, said the above-average forecast gave the green light to open up the Stikine to subsistence fishing.
"That's a great sign, and means we definitely can have a healthy fishe...
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