Seiners break Sitka's single-day pink salmon harvest record twice in one month

Seiners break Sitka's single-day pink salmon harvest record twice in one month

Seiners in Sitka broke the single-day record for harvesting pink salmon not once, but twice this month.  District 13’s previous single-day harvest record was set in 2017 when roughly 950,000 pink salmon were caught. Aaron Dupuis is the Sitka area management biologist with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. He says while pink salmon harvests are down in other parts of the state, they’re surging in Sitka. “We’ve just been seeing really strong…