Togiak Herring Landings At 50% of Quota Twelve Days into the Season
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [SeafoodNews.com] By Peggy Parker - April 29, 2016
The Togiak herring season started April 17, the earliest opening in history, and as of yesterday landed a cumulative total of 10,480 mt. That is just over 50 percent of the total purse seine allocation of 20,148 mt in 12 days.
The Dillingham office of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, operating under a minimal-to-zero budget for the herring season, reports no gillnet harvest to date. Last year’s herring fishery in Togiak landed 20,374 tons in a season that started April 27 and ended May 10, 2015.
Landings this year began on April 17 but were not reported until at least three processors began buying and reporting deliveries. By April 22, a cumulative harvest of 3,815 tons had been landed. Roe percentages were 11.8% and the reported average fish size was 404 grams.
The purse seine harvest for April 25 was 252 tons, for a cumulative of 7,741 tons. The average size of the fish was 379 grams with...
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