Togiak Herring Sac Roe: Earliest Opening Ever and Higher Quota by 28%
The Togiak herring season opened April 16 in the fishey’s earliest by a few days start date, and with nearly 30 percent more herring to catch than last year.
Almost half of the seine fishery allocation has been landed. As of April 20 at 9:30 a.m., a total of 9,340 tons out of 21,544 tons for the seine fleet had been caught. Average size of the fish were 388 grams with 11.7 % roe maturity.
The purse seine fishery in Togiak opened at 5 p.m. local time on...
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