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By MOLLY DISCHNER, ALASKA JOURNAL OF COMMERCE<\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s note: This is the eighth in the Morris Communications series, \u201cThe case for conserving the Kenai king salmon.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Each spring, as the early-run king salmon start returning to the Kenai River, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game begins a four-month effort to manage fishing in a way that ensures enough salmon swim past fishermen of all types to meet escapement goals.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2019Escapement\u2019 is actually what escapes fisheries and lives to spawn,\u201d said ADFG biologist Tim McKinley, who helped draft the current king salmon escapement goals during the fall and winter of 2012 and 2013.<\/p>\n

ADFG sets the escapement goals, which are the number of fish that need to return to produce healthy returns in the future.<\/p>\n

On the Kenai, managers try to meet escapement goals for several runs: late- and early-run kings, and sockeyes.<\/p>\n

For each run, ADFG wants a target range of fish to return and spawn \u2014 too few fish and too many fish are both problematic for future returns.<\/p>\n

At high spawning levels, density dependent factors can reduce survivability and therefore the number of salmon that return in the future from that spawning year, according to McKinley.<\/p>\n

Due to copyright law, the Alaska Salmon Alliance cannot repost full articles. You can read the rest of this editorial here.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Because the Alaska Salmon Alliance wish to provide a wide breadth of information, we sometimes provide links and documents that may conflict or present only one perspective on an issue.\u00a0 Because of that, we feel it is important to note that none of the content provided on our website necessarily represents the views or opinions of the Alaska Salmon Alliance, excepting, of course, those articles authored by us.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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