Salmon Update: PWS season’s catch nears 56 million fish
Prince William Sound drift gillnetters headed out for a 60-hour harvest period on Monday, Sept. 23, on the heels of a 60-hour period on Sept. 16 that brought in 16,100 coho salmon in 166 deliveries reported.
Crab plan team to study latest survey data
Eastern Bering Sea bottom trawl survey results will be the focus of discussion Sept. 16-20 in Seattle by the North Pacific Fishery Management Council’s crab plan team, which will set the overfishing level and acceptable biological catch for these fisheries.
Humpy catch ends, coho opener wait for rain
“We still haven’t gotten a lot of rain, so we’re tracking behind in escapement and the (coho) commercial harvest is below anticipated,” said Jeremy Botz, gillnet area management biologist for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game in Cordova.
Rainfall offers relief as PWS humpy harvest climbs to 46M+
Long sought rain and cooling weather over the past week helped boost the Prince William Sound pink salmon harvest to 46,290,000 fish, and the area’s overall salmon catch to 54,525,000 fish.
Fish Factor: Some layoffs likely in ADF&G
“Now that the salmon season is about over, we’re taking a good close look at this and what we’re going to put in the water next season,” Alaska Department of Fish and Game commissioner Doug Vincent-Lang said.
CDFU scholarships send fledgling fishermen to college
"There’s a lot of fishermen that just know how to fish, and I want to expand my horizons," scholarship recipient Reid Williams said. "I want to learn what else is out there."
Pink salmon fishery back in business
Pink salmon commercial harvests are still below forecasts, but even with no prospect of rain predicted so far until Aug. 22, the catch in Prince William Sound rose from 17.6 million to 22.2 million within the past week.
Salmon Harvest Update: Warm weather, drought delay humpy harvest
Unseasonably warm water and drought conditions in streams
are putting a damper on pink salmon harvests in Prince William Sound, where the
year-to-date catch on Tuesday,...
PWSAC produces wild salmon for all
As general manager/CEO of the Prince William Sound Aquaculture Corp., Casey Campbell is all about helping to educate the public about PWSAC’s role in developing sustainable salmon fisheries and how they do it.
PWS salmon harvest tops 10M
Commercial salmon harvests in Prince William Sound now top
10 million fish, in a week that saw the statewide catch leap to nearly double
its size,...
