Cost recovery continues at Crawfish Inlet and we have approximately 42% left to harvest. We made good progress over Friday and Saturday at CI and harvested nearly 20% of the goal. The male sex ratio is holding high in the cost recovery samples and last sample taken from Saturdays harvest was 65% male. We have been seeing a high 3-year old percentage at CI and that is maintaining at 35% of the harvest in recent samples. We will continue cost recovery fishing at CI Monday (8/29) through Wednesday (8/31). It is very unlikely that there will be a Thursday seine opening for CI as the announcement would need to come out Tuesday morning. Daily progress is posted to our home page under the 2022 Fishing section.
Chum harvest at Deep Inlet is beginning to taper off and those sex ratios are now trending heavier female with the Friday (8/26) seine sample at 60% female. The troll effort for Sitka Sound has also tapered off substantially over the last few days. Though the troll effort has lessened, their catch this season is a historic record high in number of fish and total value. The total chum troll harvest for both Sitka Sound and Crawfish Inlet currently stands at 932k fish with a value of approximately 8.2 million. Of the 932k chum caught only about 140k have come from the Crawfish area. Unless the last of the die hard chum fisherman stick it out one more week, they will likely end the season just shy of 1m total catch.
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