WK 27 Return Update
Summer chum returns to NSRAA projects through week 27 continue to be slow. Our forecasts on chum predicted few 5-year old chum and early returns are following the forecast with over 95% of the chum return so far being 4-year olds. Although week 27 did see an increase of chum catch across our sites, Deep Inlet had several moderate pulses of fish which is encouraging, we will need sustained recruitment to make our preseason forecast for the current stat week 28. Historically the peak catch of summer chum occurs in week 29 so we will need to see quite an increase this week and next to stay...
Read MoreSeptember 11 Update – Crawfish continues to surprise
The Crawfish Inlet Chum project continues to surprise with decent numbers of chum still moving into the area. Catch for the Thursday/Friday opening looks to be strong and will likely approach 100k. We have now exceeded 1 million total return to the project and it looks as it may top out over 1.2 million chum or around 80% of forecast, which is significantly better than any other NSRAA chum project this year. While the seine fleet numbers have dwindled, the remaining boats are able to add a little income to what will be the worst year for the seine fleet in decades. Openings are...
Read MoreSeptember 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...
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