Deep Inlet to Re-open Saturday August 26th to Troll
NSRAA has moved sufficient chum salmon brood stock to Bear Cove/Medvejie hatchery, to allow the reopening of Deep Inlet on Saturday August 26th to troll. The regular 2023 Deep Inlet weekly net rotation will begin with seine on Sunday August 27th. On Wednesday August 23 NSRAA moved approximately 22,000 chum from the Deep Inlet THA to Bear Cove. An additional 10,000 fish were secured in net pens at the head of Deep Inlet. Thursday August 24th NSRAA is continuing to move fish to Bear Cove and secure additional fish in net pens at the head of Deep Inlet. Be aware that the net pens at the head of...
Read MoreDeep Inlet Chum Brood Stock Closure Beginning August 19th.
NSRAA has requested that ADFG close the Deep Inlet THA to commercial fishing beginning on Aug 19th (Troll day) until further notice. It is our intention to complete brood stock collection by Aug 25th and reopen to Troll gear in the THA on Saturday Aug 26th. If brood collection proceeds quicker than anticipated NSRAA will reopen as soon as possible beginning with a troll day. If brood collection is slower than anticipated the closure will be extended until brood goals met. We will provide web updates daily on Deep Inlet chum brood collection progress. As forecast, NSRAA continues to see very...
Read MoreAugust 11th Return Update
This week the major news is the historic drop in chum salmon prices to .20 by most large processors (Chart for SEAK below) and the continued very large pink salmon seine harvest in SE Alaska. This combination of drop in chum price and increase in pink salmon abundance has led to greatly reduced seine effort in Deep Inlet. Effort in the Sitka Sound troll fishery and in Crawfish Inlet has also dramatically declined since Monday due to the drop in price. This drop in troll effort is also being exasperated by NSRAA’s request of the closure of Sitka Sound to chum retention during the Coho...
Read MoreAug 4th Return Update
Today Hidden Falls completed their chum egg take with a total of 265k fish through the hatchery and a total of 210 million eggs taken making this the largest ever chum egg take at Hidden Falls. This record number assures all existing summer stock chum programs will have their full complement of green eggs going into incubation. This number includes an additional 40 million chum that will be incubated at Hidden Falls and released at Takatz, in the Hidden Falls THA, next spring. This new production is the result of collaboration with Armstrong Keta and are being released on their behalf. Egg...
Read MoreJuly 28th Return Update
The chum return to Hidden Falls continues to progress well and we are likely nearing the end of the return and through yesterday the seine fleet have harvested an estimated 800k chum salmon and including brood stock number we have topped a 1 million fish return. This is the largest return since 2013, and if we top 1.38 million by the end, unlikely, this would be the largest Hidden Falls return since 2009. Last sex ratio sample from Sunday (7/23) had a 35% male ratio and fish behavior in the THA definitely feels like we are nearing the end. Fish are not lingering outside of Kasnyku Bay and...
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