King salmon in hatchery

Spawning king salmon gather in early August just below the Alaska Department of Fish and Game weir in Anchorage's Ship Creek at the Elmendorf Fish Hatchery. Bob Pence, assistant hatchery manager, says staffers have recently completed spawning about 170 female kings. Those eggs are in incubation and will be stocked into Ship Creek and other local streams next June. The fish, most of which were hatchery fish released three years ago, will spawn in the creek bed nearby.