Fishery Update June 28, 2019
Hidden Falls will not open Sunday June 30. Chum runs throughout SE Alaska are late or weak, or both and Hidden Falls is no exception. We have had 4 openings, two each week and the catch has been poor, about 10,500 total chum. The sex ratio is 69% male, 9.5 lb average weight, and 82% four year olds, all of which suggest we are early in the run but it doesn’t provide a guide to the magnitude of the run. Given the chum program needs 200,000 brood fish to perpetuate the on-site and off-site chum programs, the only prudent action is to cease fishing until we have high certainty of attaining...
Read MoreChum Return Update June 25, 2019
The summer run chum are off to a slow start from Ketchikan to Juneau to Sitka, although the Lynn Canal gillnet catch picked up on Monday after a slow start on Sunday. Seine and gillnet catches elsewhere were poor to non-existent on Sunday. DIPAC often has the earliest chums of the year in southeast so perhaps this is the beginning. The runs at Southeast Cove and Hidden Falls will be evaluated for sex ratio and age on Friday, but in all likelihood both sites will be open on Sunday June 30. If the Hidden Falls run does not develop by next Sunday, it will need to be closed to protect...
Read MoreNSRAA 2019 Spring Board Meeting
NSRAA’s 2019 Spring Board of Directors Meeting will be held on Monday and Tuesday, March 4-5, 2019 in Sitka in the NSRAA Board Room. Meetings begin at 9 am each day. The public is invited to attend. Topics will include reviewing the NSRAA FY20 budget, program updates, and planning for the 2019 season and beyond. The meeting agenda will be posted in early February.
Read MoreNSRAA Fall 2018 Board of Directors Meeting
NSRAA’s 2018 Fall Board of Directors Meeting will be held on Wednesday & Thursday, November 14-15, 2018 in Sitka in the NSRAA Board Room. Meetings begin at 9 am each day. The public is invited to attend. Topics will include a review of the 2018 season, program updates, a discussion of the proposed NOAA Little Port Walter Public/Private Partenership, a Pacific Salmon Treaty update, and planning for the 2019 season – including Crawfish Inlet management. Click here for the meeting agenda.
Read MoreCrawfish Inlet SHA to Open Sept. 13
There will be a common property seine opening at Crawfish Inlet on Thursday September 13th. Look for the official ADF&G announcement on Tuesday September 11th. I expect there will be one or two additional openings to clean up the tail-end of the run (announcement possibly on Friday, September 14th). Cost recovery is expected to harvest <one million pounds total between today and Tuesday with no cost recovery on Wednesday. The run to date is just over 3 million fish; 1.6 million have been harvested by the seine fleet and 220,000 by the troll fleet. Approximately 480,000 chum were...
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