With the run slowing and deliveries dropping, consumer demand is still high for those famed Copper River wild red salmon.
As of Tuesday, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game had calculated the preliminary catch from the Copper River commercial drift gillnetters at 469,678 wild salmon — including 445,147 sockeyes, 15,875 chum, 8,628 Chinook, 27 humpies and a lone coho.
