Deep Inlet Seine 30 August
Big shoot out at head of Deep Inlet, diving dogs, and 117 boats (possibly a record). Reports indicate that something on the order of 200,000 chum will be caught today. Chum continue to enter the SHA at Long Island, million dollar pass, and Error Island in modest numbers. Good luck to the gillnetters tomorrow.
Read MoreDeep Inlet Update – 29 August ’17
The report from Deep Inlet is there are 18 trollers fishing, the first day re-opening after the closure for cost recovery. I have no reports of how the harvest is going, but spotter pilots are seeing plenty of fish. The sex ratio from the Saturday August 26 cost recovery was 46% male, close to what we expected. The total return as of today is approximately 1.2 million with an in-season regression generated forecast of 1.6 million chum (broodstock, cost recovery, and common property). Seine catch might be 150,000 fish on Wednesday with another 140,000 fish in Bear Cove for broodstock plus,...
Read MoreDeep Inlet Cost Recovery Completed!
Announcement will come out Sunday for Deep Inlet reopening. Completed in record time thanks to 10 harvest boats and numerous fish. The remainder of the Deep Inlet fish will be for common property. I do not see any broodstock problems. Please respect the gear group that is fishing their rotation in Deep Inlet; stay out of their way. Trollers will likely be fish Eastern Channel as well. Troll Tuesday Seine Wednesday Gillnet Thursday and so forth on published schedule. Great job SBS seiners getting the job done efficiently and orderly. Thank you
Read MoreDeep Inlet Cost Recovery Saturday 26 Aug – 8am
Began fishing at 6 a.m. with 8 boats. Approximately 400,000 pounds harvested by 8 a.m. We will attempt to finish cost recovery today, just another 280,000 pounds to go. We will harvest about 150,000 pounds outside Deep Inlet beginning at 9 a.m. It is almost certain we will open with troll on Tuesday and seine Wednesday, gillnet Thursday. Next update early afternoon. If we complete cost recovery today or Sunday, ADF&G is already on alert so an announcement can be issued soon after.
Read MoreDeep Inlet Cost Recovery Update 24 Aug – 6 pm
The adjusted harvest is 907,000 pounds. Goal for Saturday is 693,000 pounds. We will fish in Deep Inlet (to Eckholms), outside Camp Coogan, and Silver Bay (to lesser extent) and expect to finish on Sunday at the latest. If we do finish cost recovery we will get an announcement out by Monday for a Tuesday troll opening followed by Wednesday seine, and Thursday gillnet. I will post a blog on Sunday as to whether we completed cost recovery and when Deep Inlet will most likely reopen. Remember, ADF&G reopens at our request, but it is not official until the ADF&G announcement comes out....
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