![]() ![]() Weekly harvest data compiled by ADF&G showed the Bristol Bay commercial sockeye salmon fishery is off to a robust start, with a year-to-date harvest of 1,890 metric tons up 480% from 326 metric tons in 2022. That fishery will now proceed as normal, Friedman said, with the statewide Chinook projection raised by 100,000 fish to 242,000 kings. That ruling would have prevented the opening of the Southeast Alaska summer Chinook troll fishery from opening on July 1. Court of Appeals halted implementation of a lower court ruling in a lawsuit brought by the Wild Fish Conservancy in Seattle. Much more will be known about Alaska’s sockeye salmon harvest in the next few weeks as Bristol Bay fishing ramps up.”įriedman also noted that last week the Ninth Circuit U.S. ![]() For sockeye salmon, the Alaska Peninsula catch is down 62% from 2022, bringing the overall species year-over-year trend to -15%. While the statewide keta catch is up, it is in line with the five-year average. “The keta harvest is down 35% in the Alaska Peninsula. “Early season keta harvest was driven by the Prince William Sound region, where the harvest is up 250% from 2022,” he said. Pink salmon harvests are just starting to come in and the first expected coho harvests are still weeks away,” Friedman said. “Early season keta harvest volumes are up (+162%), while early sockeye and Chinook harvests are down through the end of Statistical Week 25, which ended June 24 this year, but was June 18 in 2022. “The overall Alaska commercial salmon harvest is in line with 2022, with some variation among species,” noted Sam Friedman, a seafood consultant with McKinley Research Group LLC, in Anchorage, which compiles in season commercial salmon fishing reports for the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute. The largest area chum catch to date has been in the Montague drift gillnet district, with an estimated harvest of 583,441 chums, followed by 212,935 chums in the Coghill drift gillnet fishery.ĪDF&G meanwhile put the statewide commercial salmon preliminary harvest at nearly 5.3 million fish, including 1,039,000 sockeyes, 2,187,000 chum, 182,000 pink and 30,000 Chinook. The largest area catch of sockeyes outside of the Cordova District was 173,262 reds in the Eshamy Bay drift gillnet fishery. ![]() The June 22 Copper River opener, the last one for which harvests were totaled, saw 244 deliveries from harvesters to processors, bringing in 50,443 sockeyes, 856 chum, 383 kings, 81 pink and 50 cohos.Īrea wide Prince William Sound commercial fishing districts have caught an estimated nearly 1.7 million salmon through Tuesday, including 919,637 chum, 739,571 sockeye, 19,343 pink, 9,294 Chinook and 79 coho salmon. File photo for The Cordova Times by Margaret BaumanĬopper River wild salmon catches are still climbing, in the wake of two closures, and the harvest from Monday’s 36-hour opener still to be counted.Īs of Tuesday, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) calculated the total preliminary Copper River district catch at 521,492 fish, including 495,590 sockeyes, 16,731 chum, 9,012 Chinook, 108 pink and 51 coho salmon. Here Tito Marquez, general manager at 10th & M, prepares to fillet the red salmon, with other staff looking on. The hoopla surrounding the arrival of first run Copper River sockeye salmon in Anchorage in early June led to robust sales, keeping retailers like 10th & M Seafoods busy. ![]()
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