ADFG forecasts 75M+ run of Bristol Bay salmon in 2022

State fisheries biologists are forecasting a run of 75.27 million sockeye salmon into Bristol Bay in the summer of 2022, 44% more than the most recent 10-year average.

Fish Factor: Preliminary data shows dockside value of 2021 catch was nearly $644M

According to preliminary harvests and values by region from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, a catch of nearly 234 million salmon had a dockside value of almost $644 million, and weighed in at 858.5 million pounds.

Fish Factor: Dungeness in GOA now state’s largest crab fishery

It’s hard to believe, but Dungeness crab in the Gulf of Alaska is now Alaska’s largest crab fishery – a distinction due to the collapse of stocks in the Bering Sea.

Fish Factor: Symphony of Seafood competition has 18 entries

Past Symphony of Seafood winners include Pollock Protein Noodles, Southern Style Alaska Wild Wings, candied salmon ice cream, fish oils for pets, fish and chips meal kits, and Fin Fish earrings.

Fish Factor: Good fishing season pushes up permit prices

Optimism is the word that best sums up the attitude among most Alaska salmon fishermen after a good season, according to people in the business of buying and selling permits and boats.

Fish Factor: Most Bristol Bay salmon money won’t circulate in Alaska

The preliminary value to fishermen of the nearly 41 million salmon caught this summer at Alaska’s largest fishery at Bristol Bay is nearly $248 million, 64% above the 20-year average.

Fish Factor: ‘Smart buoys’ trac, monitor deployed fishing gear

Lost fishing gear — be it nets, lines or pots — continues “ghost fishing” forever, causing a slow death to countless marine creatures and financial losses to fishermen.

Tanner crab abundance growing in Westward region of Alaska

Unlike in the Bering Sea, there’s good news for crab in the Gulf of Alaska. A huge cohort of Tanner crab that biologists have been tracking in the Westward region for three years showed up again in this summer’s survey.

Fish Factor: Crab harvesters reeling over news of depleted stocks

Alaska’s Bering Sea crabbers are reeling from the devastating news that all major crab stocks are down substantially, based on summer survey results, and the Bristol Bay red king crab fishery will be closed for the first time in over 25 years.

Fish Factor: Bristol Bay harvester named for BOF, pending legislative approval

It took freedom of information requests, weeks of queries to administrators and more than three months past a legal deadline for Gov. Dunleavy to finally release his choice for a Board of Fisheries seat, writes Laine Welch.
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