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The Village is a Daily News blog about life and politics in rural Alaska. Its main author is ADN reporter Kyle Hopkins. Come here for breaking news on village issues, plus interviews, videos and photos. But that's just part of the story. We want to feature your pictures, videos and stories, too. Think of The Village as your bulletin board. E-mail us anything you’d like to share with the rest of Alaska -- your letters to the editor, the photos of your latest hunt or video of your latest potlatch. (We love video.)

Kyle Hopkins

I was born in Sitka, have lived in Kake, Skagway and Fairbanks and joined the ADN in 2005 after writing for the Anchorage Press and Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. I started blogging for the paper in 2006 with The Trail, our blog about the governor's race. Then came the Alaska Politics blog. Now I'm covering government and rural affairs and live in Anchorage with my wife, Rebecca. (Update: Our daughter Alice was born May 31. Thanks everyone for the suggestions.) E-mail me at khopkins@adn.com and find me on Twitter at twitter.com/ADNVillage.

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Salmon: Fish and Game forecasts 15 percent drop in commercial harvest

Workers at the Copper River Seafoods plant in Cordova dump a tray of frozen salmon into a tote while processing red and pink salmon from Prince William Sound on June 26, 2008. (Bob Hallinen / Anchorage Daily News)Workers at the Copper River Seafoods plant in Cordova dump a tray of frozen salmon into a tote while processing red and pink salmon from Prince William Sound on June 26, 2008. (Bob Hallinen / Anchorage Daily News)

Do you sell salmon?

Take a look at Fish and Game’s forecasts and projections for the 2010 commercial salmon season, now up on the Department’s Web site. It’s a close look at how things went in 2009, plus predictions for how many fish will be caught around the state this year.

The 2010 commercial salmon catch is expected to drop by about 15 percent due to a projected dip in the pink salmon harvest, the report says. About 69.1 million pinks are expected to be caught this year, compared to 96.7 million in 2009.

Last year’s harvest for all salmon was 162.5 million fish – or about 12.4 million fewer than the preseason forecast. Still, it was the 12th-largest salmon harvest since 1960, Fish and Game says.

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