Fish Factor: Early ex-vessel salmon prices are way up from 2020
Early prices to Alaska salmon fishermen are trickling in and as anticipated they are up across the board.
Pink salmon catch boosts Prince William Sound harvest
An overall catch of 16.6 million humpies has boosted the preliminary commercial total harvest in Prince William Sound to over 20 million fish, although it’s still too early to gauge the strength of the pink salmon harvest.
Fishery managers say sockeye catches in Bristol Bay are ‘unprecedented’
"Unprecedented" is how fishery managers are describing sockeye catches at Bristol Bay, which topped 1 million fish for seven days straight at the Nushagak district and neared the 2 million mark on several days.
Prince William Sound catch grows to 8.3M fish
While the Copper River sockeye harvest, at some 295,268 fish, remains below forecast, the enhanced run of chums in the Coghill district, with a drift gillnet harvest now exceeding 1.1 million fish, is coming in better than anticipated, said Jeremy Botz, gillnet area management biologist for ADF&G in Cordova.
1 dead, 2 rescued after boat hit by large wave
A commercial harvester from Texas died and two crew members were rescued after a fishing vessel stuck on a sandbar in the Nushagak area of Bristol Bay was hit by a large wave, knocking the entire crew overboard.
Fish Factor: New phone app helps fishermen report climate change impact
Now a new phone app is making sure fishermen's real-life, real-time observations are included in scientific data.
Prince William Sound harvest at 2.9M fish
Commercial salmon harvests in Prince William Sound nearly doubled over the past week, with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s preliminary catch totals as of Wednesday, July 7, showing a jump to 2.9 million fish, including 800,000 sockeyes.
2019 Norton Sound crab fishery gets disaster status
The 2019 Norton Sound red king crab fishery has been determined by Commerce Secretary Gina M. Raimondo to qualify for disaster status.
Copper River set for 24-hour opener on June 28
Commercial fishing on the Copper River begins an eighth opener on Monday, June 28, for a 24-hour drift gillnet fishery.
New program aims to engage fishermen as scientists
A new effort to engage fishermen as citizen scientists, logging ecological observations and documenting changes in fisheries and ocean conditions, is getting underway this summer, using a smartphone app for logging real time observations from the fishing grounds.
