I live in Alaska’s Mat-Su Valley near Palmer and have fished for and eaten Upper Copper River salmon since the mid-1970s.

The University of Washington is out with a second opinion on the projected 2025 Bristol Bay sockeye run. UW’s Alaska Salmon Program is forecasting a run of 54.1 million fish.

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. In response to record-low bull trout spawning nests in the South Fork of the Flathead River and ...