Commercial Fishers and Wild Salmon Advocates Cheer Large Returns to BC Waters

Commercial Fishers and Wild Salmon Advocates Cheer Large Returns to BC Waters
Kris Dudoward is shown aboard the commercial fishing vessel Irenda earlier this week with catch of sockeye salmon on B.C.’s Skeena River near Prince Rupert. The Canadian Press/HO/Mitch Dudoward
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The summer of 2022 is shaping up to be a bumper season for both pink and sockeye salmon in British Columbia rivers, with one veteran Indigenous fisherman reporting the biggest catches of sockeye in decades.

Mitch Dudoward has worked in the salmon industry for more than 40 years, and says fishing on the Skeena River in northwest B.C. has never been better.