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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 […]Deep Inlet Cost Recovery – August 24 Update
The chum are increasing by the day. We harvested 300,000 lbs on August 23 and already have 60,000 lbs this morning. That leaves 465,000 lbs to complete cost recovery. We expect to finish cost recovery sometime today or tomorrow. If we do finish cost recovery we will get an announcement out on Thursday or Friday. Most likely scenario is Troll Saturday, Seine Sunday, and Gillnet Monday/Tuesday.
Deep Inlet Cost Recovery – August 23
Cost recovery boats caught 255,000 lbs yesterday. Total remaining is 825,000 lbs. SSS boats are fishing today. With some luck we should be finished by this weekend.
Deep Inlet Cost Recovery – August 22 update
This is beginning to look like a big week. Boats have already caught over 100,000 lbs this morning and there are large schools along Makhnati, Aluetkina, Camp Coogan, and back in the inlet. I am expecting this to be our biggest day yet.
Egg takes began this weekend. We have gone through 6,000 chum to date.
Deep Inlet Cost Recovery – August 21 Harvest
Good numbers of chum moved in along Makhnati, Long Island passes, and Deep Inlet on Sunday. 220,000 lbs were caught on Sunday with decent numbers still showing at dark. As of the morning of August 22 we have 1.07 million lbs to go.
Deep Inlet August 20 Cost Recovery
Fish moved in yesterday in decent numbers. Caught approximately 200,000 lbs today. That makes 1.24 million lbs to go. Boats will fish tomorrow if there are fish in the area.
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