Fall chum salmon run failed to hit escapement goal on Porcupine River - Yukon News
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2023 was another bad year for chinook, fall chum salmon, Yukon
Here's how people on the Lower Yukon River are faring two years
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Dwindling Salmon Populations in the Yukon
Yukon River chinook, chum salmon runs expected to be small again
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Promising Chinook salmon run failed to materialize in the Yukon
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Fall chum and the coho salmon runs on the Yukon River remain too
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could close fishing for
Migratory Patterns of Wild Chinook Salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha
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Another 'pretty abysmal' year for Yukon River chinook and fall
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No sport fishing for salmon on Yukon River again this year, as