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The world's largest producer and market supplier of Chinook salmon is New Zealand. In 2009, New Zealand exported 5,088 tonnes (5,609 short tons) of Chinook salmon, marketed as king salmon, equating to a value of NZ$61 million in export earnings. For the year ended March 2011, this amount had increased to NZ$85 million.
In one particular study researchers studied the migratory patterns of wild chinook salmon. [10] They did this by capturing and tagging adult chinook salmon from June to mid July in the lower Yukon river. [10] The tagged fish had radio transmitters, which were used to track the salmon and their migration patterns throughout the Yukon river. [10]
During the 2019 agreements, Alaska agreed to reduce Chinook salmon harvests by up to 7.5%, while Canada committed to a 12.5% reduction. [citation needed] These cuts were motivated by ongoing declines in Chinook populations. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game adjusts annual catch limits each year in accordance with the latest treaty provisions.
Currently, king or chinook (gas) salmon occupies the majority of the harvest of salmonids in this region, followed by dog or chum (srughat'aye) and silver or coho (nosdlaghe) salmon. Whereas hundreds of thousands, and even millions, of salmon enter the Kuskokwim River, by the time they reach the headwaters only a few thousand or even a few ...
The Kenai River is home to five species of Pacific salmon, including the largest chinook salmon in the world. Birds include large numbers of bald eagles and wintering snow geese from Wrangell Island , who gather at the mouth of the Kenai River before their spring migration.
The Taku is the Southeast Alaska's top salmon-producing river. Data from the Alaska Department of Fish & Game [ 10 ] notes that nearly 2 million wild salmon return to the river annually, including up to 100,000 Chinook salmon (king salmon), 350,000 sockeye salmon (red salmon) and 400,000 coho salmon (silver salmon), 50,000 chum salmon (dog ...
It is said that these Chinook salmon had massive amounts of energy reserves. They also produced large amounts of offspring. Bob Heinith of the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission stated that June hogs most likely migrated to the sea as very young fish before the age of one.
Most notable is the annual run of king (Chinook) salmon which occurs from mid-June to mid-July. Rainbow trout, northern pike, grayling, burbot, whitefish and Arctic char are also present in the Nushagak. It is estimated that over 50% of the world's production of wild salmon is harvested in the Nushagak River and the Bristol Bay area.