Medvejie Broodstock August 22
Deep Inlet has been closed for 5 days now but few fish have shown up at the head of the inlet. There were a few jumps yesterday but no small or large bodies of fish. The fish were either deep or not there. Medvejie/Bear Cove looks much better, with an estimated 45,000 chum. Chum eggtakes begin tomorrow and I will have another estimate by tonight. Net pens are being towed to the head of Deep Inlet today and we will have a purse seiner at Deep Inlet this weekend or Monday. If there are fish the seiner will roll them into the net pens. However, if we don’t see fish we will conduct some...
Read MoreDeep Inlet to Close Sunday August 17, 12:01 a.m.
NSRAA plans to close Deep Inlet THA Sunday August 17. ADF&G will announce closure of southern portion of Sitka Sound to seine fishing for the Augusta 16/17 opening and non retention of troll caught chum in similar area. NSRAA will continue to evaluate gillnet, troll, and seine fisheries through Saturday August 16. If a huge wave of a quarter million chum arrive in the meantime we can reverse course, but that seems unlikely. Once the closure is initiated NSRAA will monitor fish numbers in Deep Inlet and Medvejie. When there are 30,000 chum at Deep Inlet we will hire a seiner to capture...
Read MoreHidden Falls Over 1.3 Million Return & Deep Inlet Fall Chum Starts
The Hidden Falls run surpassed the 1.3 million chum forecast with the July 21st opening. Chum continue to trickle in but it appears nearly over. The Hidden Falls stock at Deep Inlet performed quite well this year with some 500,000 chum harvested by the three gear groups. Larger chum are beginning to get caught (5 year old males?) in the Eastern Channel troll fishery so it is likely the fall run is starting. Hidden Falls is breaking spawning records nearly every day. Eggtakes are tedious and arduous when the goal is 135 million eggs and the average day yields 7 million eggs, taking 20...
Read MoreDeep Inlet & Hidden Falls Seine Update
Good catches at both Deep Inlet and Hidden Falls on Sunday, current estimate of 45,000 and 74,000 respectively. Deep Inlet was a bit of a surprise to some. Gillnet fishing sounds slow so far today at Deep Inlet. Hot and sunny, and the fish are stalled outside the THA. Deep Inlet – Sixteen boats fished Deep Inlet on Sunday. We are still processing samples so don’t have sex ratio and age class yet, but there seem to be lots of small fish, possibly early 3 year olds. Similar to Hidden Falls’ early catches, the catch of 45,000 at Deep Inlet is the largest catch for stat week 26...
Read MoreSalmon Enhancement in Southeast Alaska
NSRAA has conducted salmon ehancement in Southeast Alaska sine 1978.
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