Request for Cost Recovery Bids: 2024 Season
See below request for proposal documents for 2024 cost recovery bids. Deadline for proposal submissions vary. See documents for details. Chum Cost Recovery – Crawfish Inlet and West Crawfish Inlet Chum Cost Recovery – Sitka Area Chum Cost Recovery – Southeast Cove and Gunnuk Creek Chum Cost Recovery – Hidden Falls Carcasses – All Sites Coho – Hidden Falls and Mist Cove
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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...
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