Highest Togiak Herring Forecast Since 1993: 34,111 Tons for 2021 Purse Seine Sac Roe Fishery
The 2021 Togiak herring forecast is 236,742 tons, the highest forecast since 1993 when the current age-structurteed assessment model was implemented. The state's Alaska Department of Fish and Game released the forecast last weekend.
A biomass of that size means the total allowable harvest for the area will be 47,348 tons, calculated at a 20% exploitation rate.
Allocation further reduces that amount with 1,500 tons to the Togiak Spawn on Kelp Fishery and 3,209 tons for the Dutch Harbor Food and Bait allocation. That ...
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