Image by woody1778a via Flickr Margaret Bauman | The Bristol Bay Times | May 29, 2011 Yukon River chum salmon, rich in important omega-3 oils and prized for their rich, buttery flavor, will be running soon, providing an important harvest to several hundred Yup'ik Eskimo harvesters who deliver to Kwik'Pak Fisheries at Emmonak. But just how many fish they will be able to harvest is the big question and Jack Schultheis, general manager for Kwik'Pak, said he hopes the Alaska Department of Fish and Game will take a more moderate management approach, one that will allow harvesters to bring in more than the 150,000 chums they were allowed to harvest a year ago. Time was, Schultheis said, when there were so many salmon swimming upstream in summer that processors were overloaded, fisheries were shut down or openings delayed so that the processors cold catch up with the harvest already there. That happened on a regular basis, with the fishery valued at $15 million to $20 million.