This is Fish Radio. I ‘m Laine Welch --- Some first market reports for sockeye salmon. That’s up after this 

Bristol Bay’s sockeye salmon catch has topped 35 million fish and most fishermen are wrapping up their season. Now that Alaska buyers have an idea of who’s got what and what product forms the fish might take, some market reports are finally starting to trickle in. 

Bristol Bay sockeye is primarily made into frozen, headed and gutted and canned products. Frozen production should reach 20,000 tons and possibly 30,000 tons, according to Japan’s top seafood market watcher, Minato-Tsukiji.com. 

With an average sockeye size of just five pounds across all of Bristol Bay, fully half of the H&G frozen fish will be in the two to four pound range, a size that usually makes up about 32 percent of the frozen pack...