Chum meets chum on the Yukon

The Yukon River’s two chum runs are meeting up this week. The summer chum run is winding down and the fall chum run is just beginning. The state’s monitoring programs near the Yukon coast began reporting all chum as fall chum salmon as of Wednesday, which means the commercial fisheries have also gone to fall chum.

Angela Denning-Barnes, KYUK – Bethel

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