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Nicole Kimball
12:33 - 12:49
“Every single salmon is counted. It's a census of salmon. And then they do genetic sampling on those salmon. The salmon caught in the bycatch, as you might know, are Chinook and chum, not other species of salmon.”
- Speaker
- Nicole Kimball
- Timestamp
- 12:33 – 12:49
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
- September 8, 2026
From the transcript
It's brought back to a shoreside processing plant, and then everything is counted, weighed. Every single salmon is counted. It's a census of salmon. And then they do genetic sampling on those salmon. The salmon caught in the bycatch, as you might know, are Chinook and chum, not other species of salmon.
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