September 2nd update-Deep Inlet Closure
NSRAA has requested that ADFG close Deep Inlet to all common property fisheries beginning end of day Saturday, April 5th, after troll day. We continue to have concerns that sufficient brood stock has recruited to Bear Cove/Medvejie Hatchery. This years chum egg goal at Medvejie is 102 million with an estimated brood stock need of 120,000 adults to achieve that goal. Our brood stock estimate on Wednesday was 90k chum. We have utilized approximately 20k chum for brood stock and our estimate of remaining chum in Bear Cove using aerial surveys is 70k chum remaining. We have not observed...
Read MoreAugust 21 Weekly Update
Cost Recovery fishing this week at Crawfish has gone very well. We are currently at 80% complete of our pre-season goal. Based upon the current harvest rate we will complete Cost Recovery on Sunday August 23. We will open the entire Crawfish Inlet net SHA to common property seine harvest on Tuesday August 25. After Tuesday we will put CI in the same time/rotation as Deep Inlet seine. I anticipate there will be large volume accumulated in the SHA by Tuesday. Since Tuesday afternoon the vast majority of Cost Recovery has come out of Shamrock Bay in West Crawfish. Fish have started to...
Read MoreAugust 14 Weekly Update
This week at Deep Inlet there was initial excitement as there was a good push of fish into the THA after the weekend rain and wind. This push appears to have been short lived as the catch began dropping off on the Wednesday Gillnet day and continued to drop the last two days for the seine fleet. At this point it is nearly a certainty we will close the Deep Inlet THA after the Gillnet rotation on Wednesday until further notice. Most recent sex ratio is still 66% male but the 3 year old component has increased in the last week from 60% to 74%. This combined with the drop in numbers is very...
Read MoreAug 6 Weekly Update
We have made strong progress at Hidden Falls this past week and have taken 130 million chum eggs and gone through 150k fish. We have taken an additional 5 million chum eggs at Medvejie for the Hidden Falls stock component leaving an additional 55 million to go. Chum eggtakes are continuing at both Hidden Falls and Medvejie. It is still to early to determine if we will make the entire goal of 190 million. The numbers of chum entering Kasnyku Bay is slowly diminishing each day although it would be unusual for the run to entirely shut off this early. We continue to collect chum at SE Cove...
Read MoreJuly 30 Weekly Update
This past week we have seen continued improvement in brood stock numbers at Hidden Falls. To date we have gone through 75,000 chum brood and taken 70 million chum eggs. We have secured the 56 million portion for release at Hidden Falls and by Friday we should have the 20 million for release from Bear Cove secured and will be working on the 20 million brood stock release for Gunnuk Creek Hatchery over the weekend. The next priority of projects in order is 24 million Deep Inlet, 45 million SE Cove and 25 million Thomas Bay. While we still have a long ways to go there has been a steady but...
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