The $24.99-per-pound at Fred Meyer stores in Anchorage the first week of June was less than what Copper River sockeye were fetching this month in Seattle. The first-of-the-season Alaska sockeye were selling this past weekend for $34.99 a pound at Pike Place Fish Market in Seattle, or $99.99 for the whole fish (four-pounders). Whole Copper River kings were priced at $649.90 at Pike Place, with king fillets at $84.99 per pound. As of June 8, Prince William Sound fishermen had delivered almost 335,000 sockeye and 6,500 kings to processors, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
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