43 Million Pink Salmon Forecasted for Southeast Alaska Harvest in 2017
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [SeafoodNews] by Peggy Parker - November 9, 2016
Yesterday the Alaska Department of Fish and Game Southeast released their harvest forecast of 43 million pink salmon for Southeast Alaska in 2017, just weeks after Governor Walker sought federal disaster relief for the fishery’s low harvest this year.
The latest harvest figures for 2016 of 18.4 million pink salmon in Southeast compare to ADF&G’s prediction last year of 34 million pink salmon harvest.
This year’s forecast is based, as it has been for several years, on a two-step process that first looks at trends in harvest over the past 50 years, then adjusts that with current survey data provided by NOAA Fisheries.
The first step includes giving recent harvests more weight in the analysis (the older the data, the less influence it has on the analysis) than long-ago harvests.
NOAA’s annual trawl survey to assess juvenile pink salmon abundance takes place every June-July in...
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