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Cohoho!

Pink salmon seiners aren't the only ones who could be celebrating after this season.

Southeast trollers are looking to score big on coho salmon.

"The wild return and commercial catch projections are well above average and second only to those in 1994, when the coho salmon return was the largest on record," the Alaska Department of Fish and Game said in this announcement. "High abundance levels have been observed throughout the region during the past several weeks."

More hatchery news

The Department of Fish and Game is considering whether to issue a permit for a new Southeast Alaska hatchery to produce Chinook and coho salmon.

Deckboss confesses this is the first he's heard of the proposed Baranof Warm Springs Hatchery on Baranof Island.

A lot of background information appears to be available here.

Yukon notches strong fall chum, coho catches

Here are highlights from a Department of Fish and Game summary of the 2011 fall salmon season on the Yukon River:

• The commercial harvest of 238,979 fall chum salmon was the largest since 1995.

• The commercial harvest of 76,303 coho salmon was the largest since 1991.

• All salmon were sold "in the round" and no salmon roe was sold separately.

• The ex-vessel value of the catch was an excellent $2.1 million, including $1.6 million for fall chum and $478,960 for coho.

• A total of 410 permit holders participated in the fishery.

Last call for coho

Low coho abundance precludes an extension of the Southeast Alaska summer salmon troll fishery, which will close at midnight.

That's the official word from the Department of Fish and Game.

The state's latest tally shows a Southeast summer troll catch of just over 1.1 million coho.