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Support Alaska Hatcheries at Board of Fisheries - Alaska Board of Fisheries Proposals. Your voice is needed. The board of fisheries will take up three hatchery proposals at the statewide meeting. Proposals 170, 171, and 172 seek to impose broad, preemptive reductions or moratoria on Alaska’s private nonprofit (PNP) salmon hatchery program without demonstrating a causal link between hatchery production and the specific […]
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August 25th-Deep Inlet to reopen Tuesday August 26th - Cost recovery has been completed for Deep Inlet. The Deep Inlet THA will reopen starting Tuesday with the following rotation for this week(stat wk 35)-Tuesday-Troll, Wednesday-seine, Thur/Fri-gillnet, Saturday seine. Next week the Deep Inlet rotation will revert to the regular schedule of Sunday-seine, Mon-Wed-gillnet, Thur/Fri-seine and Saturday-troll. The ADFG announcement should be out shortly.
August 22-Deep Inlet Cost Recovery Progress Update - Based upon Friday morning Deep Inlet cost recovery progress, a Deep Inlet reopening announcement will not be issued at this time. At current harvest rates it is unlikely our cost recovery goal will be met by end of day Saturday. The next potential reopening announcement has been pushed back to Monday, August 25th and will […]
Return Update-August 19th - Deep Inlet Last week a total of 276,000 chum salmon returned to Deep Inlet. The majority of the harvest, 156,000, occurred in the pink salmon seine fishery in Eastern Channel. Troll harvest in Sitka Sounds also increased last week with approximately 60,000 chum harvested by 67 troll permit holders. An additional 35,000 chum were harvested […]Support Alaska Hatcheries at Board of Fisheries
Alaska Board of Fisheries Proposals. Your voice is needed.
The board of fisheries will take up three hatchery proposals at the statewide meeting. Proposals 170, 171, and 172 seek to impose broad, preemptive reductions or moratoria on Alaska’s private nonprofit (PNP) salmon hatchery program without demonstrating a causal link between hatchery production and the specific conservation concerns they claim to address. Collectively, these proposals abandon Alaska’s science-based, adaptive management framework in favor of blanket regulatory actions that would undermine fisheries stability, harm coastal communities, and set a dangerous precedent for decision-making absent demonstrated necessity. Go to the ADF&G Public Comment Link to share your comments.
ADF&G Public Comment LinkThe Salmon Hatcheries For Alaska Group also has a portal for submitting commets.
Some helpful resources:
Board of Fisheries Meeting Page Proposals 170-172 Salmon Hatcheries For Alaska Prop SummariesNSRAA Scholarship Reminder
Each year NSRAA awards three $2500 scholarships.
Applications are due soon – check it out!
August 25th-Deep Inlet to reopen Tuesday August 26th
Cost recovery has been completed for Deep Inlet. The Deep Inlet THA will reopen starting Tuesday with the following rotation for this week(stat wk 35)-Tuesday-Troll, Wednesday-seine, Thur/Fri-gillnet, Saturday seine. Next week the Deep Inlet rotation will revert to the regular schedule of Sunday-seine, Mon-Wed-gillnet, Thur/Fri-seine and Saturday-troll. The ADFG announcement should be out shortly.
August 22-Deep Inlet Cost Recovery Progress Update
Based upon Friday morning Deep Inlet cost recovery progress, a Deep Inlet reopening announcement will not be issued at this time. At current harvest rates it is unlikely our cost recovery goal will be met by end of day Saturday. The next potential reopening announcement has been pushed back to Monday, August 25th and will be issued as soon as possible after Deep Inlet cost recovery has been completed. If there is a Monday announcement the Deep Inlet schedule would be Tuesday-Troll, Wednesday-seine, Thur/Fri-gillnet, Saturday seine. Our homepage Sitka Area Deep Inlet cost recovery progress bar will continue to be updated daily over the weekend.
Return Update-August 19th
Deep Inlet
Last week a total of 276,000 chum salmon returned to Deep Inlet. The majority of the harvest, 156,000, occurred in the pink salmon seine fishery in Eastern Channel. Troll harvest in Sitka Sounds also increased last week with approximately 60,000 chum harvested by 67 troll permit holders. An additional 35,000 chum were harvested for cost recovery. Seine, troll and cost recovery samples all indicated a greater than 50% male sex ratio with troll coming in the highest at 64%.
So far this week an estimated 80,000 chum have been harvested for cost recovery, bringing our progress to 80% of our cost recovery goal as of Tuesday afternoon. Cost recovery will resume Friday August 22 and there is a strong likelihood that the cost recovery goal will be met this coming weekend. A Deep Inlet THA reopening announcement will be issued as soon as the cost recovery goal is met. There will likely be a modified schedule for the first week of the reopening to maintain a 1:1 net ratio between seine and gillnet.
Crawfish Inlet
To date Crawfish Inlet has produced minimal chum cost recovery harvest. There are reports of chum outside of the Crawfish Inlet SHA in the Cedar Pass and Walker/Middle Channel areas. West Crawfish Inlet has not produced any troll harvest to date this season. West Crawfish Inlet will be open this Thursday for pink salmon seine harvest but as of today there does not appear to be large volumes of chum present. Next cost recovery harvest in Crawfish Inlet will be on Friday, August 22.
Coho
Coho harvest continues to remain steady but at a reduced rate from previous weeks. To date a total of 30,000 NSRAA coho have been harvested in troll and sport fisheries. The first coho cost recovery effort of the season was conducted at Mist Cove and Hidden Falls yesterday, Monday the 18th, with approximately 9,000lbs harvested at each site. While not a large cost recovery harvest this is one of the earlier starts to coho cost recovery for those sites.
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