Togiak Herring Roe Season Opens Ten Days Earlier Than in Recent Years
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Seafood.com] By Peggy Parker - April 18, 2016
The Togiak herring roe season opened yesterday at 6 pm, almost exactly ten days earlier than in 2015 and 2014 and more than three weeks earlier than in 2013.
“We’ve never started fishing before the 25th.,” said Tim Sands, management biologist for the Alaska Departent of Fish & Game. “We can open it potentially as early as the 15th. But the earliest we’ve ever opened is the 25th [of April]. We’ve seen fish earlier than that, on the 22nd, I think, so this is much much earlier than we’ve ever seen,” Sands said.
The forecasted harvest of 28,783 mt is close to last year’s catch, and represents 20% of the total biomass observed.
The Alaska Departmnet of Fish & Game’s Dillingham staff flew a survey of the Togiak Herring District yesterday under very poor conditions. They saw 37 miles of herring spawn in Nunavachak Bay, around Summit Island, in Ungalikthluk Bay, Rocky Bay, behind Tongue Point, by Asigyukpak (Oosik) Spit, at Hagemeister Spit and the northwest end of Hagemeister Island...
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