Alaska's Total Salmon Catch at Just Over Half the Forecast With Chum and Coho Seasons Left
SEAFOODNEWS.COM by Peggy Parker - August 2, 2016
With a few months left in the salmon season -- fall chum and coho seasons are ahead in some areas -- landings of all salmon are at 82.4 million fish in a forecast of 161 million.
Pink salmon landings are at 20.3 million as of August 1, in a forecast of 90 million.
In Prince William Sound, the forecast was for 37 million hatchery pink salmon (19.6 million from PWS Aquaculture Corp. and 17.4 from Valdez Fisheries Development Association) and 3.8 million non-hatchery. So far, landings for the two major pink hatcheries have been 3.2 million and the common property fishery (non-hatchery) has produced 5.8 million pinks as of August 1.
“This is well below the 10-year Eastern district average harvest level of 10.8 million fish for this date,” writes the ADF&G management biologist...
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