WK 30 Return Update
Summer chum egg takes are well underway at Hidden Falls, Gunnuk Creek and Medvejie hatchery. By Wednesday we are 75% complete at Hidden Falls, 50% complete at Gunnuk Creek and 40% complete at Medvejie. Currently Medvejie appears to be on the tail end of their summer chum recruitment and will like be short of their 30m goal by ~8m. Both Hidden Falls and Gunnuk Creek look like our pre-season brood stock escapement goals will be met. Unfortunately both of those facilities are running greater than 60% male, which on a normal year would indicate we are less than halfway through the return. ...
Read MoreWK 29 Return Update
Returns of summer chum to NSRAA remote release sites through stat week 29 continues to be poor and all indications to date are that we will be at or well below the low range of our preseason summer chum forecast. Catches at Thomas Bay and SE Cove this past week, were weak with few boats at each site. The only positive indicator is that both sites are still running above 55% male but the combined cumulative catch to date of the two is less than 50k fish total. We continue to see a slow building of chum at Gunnuk Creek and yesterday was the first day NSRAA has had the fish ladder on and...
Read MoreWK 28 Return Update
Summer chum returns through Stat week 28 continue to be slow and are trending at or below the low range of the forecast at all of our sites. Historically this week (wk 29), would be the peak of the catch. Sex ratio data on the summer chum indicates we are following that historical timeline and the returns will be weak and less than forecast. We continue to see virtually no 5-year olds at any of our sites and the chum return is over 95% 4-year olds. Additionally the 4-year olds are small with a 6lb or less average. While the test fisheries at Pt Gardner and Kingsmill are indicating a...
Read MoreWK 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...
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