Deep Inlet Aug 22, 10 a.m.
There are ten boats fishing in the inlet with an estimated 25,000 lbs each, or 250,000 lbs. The boats will be moving out of the inlet soon to harvest along the Eckholms to Makhnati. Progress but slower than expected.
Read MoreDeep Inlet Cost Recovery Aug 21
Cost recovery began this morning at Deep Inlet and will continue through Wednesday. Silver Bay has the contract and will be using 12 harvest boats to get the job done. There is a 900,000 lb tender on the grounds. Chip Blair is on the water managing the effort. I’ll provide updates throughout the day as I receive information.
Read MoreCrawfish Inlet Chum Cost Recovery to Begin
Sitka Sound Seafoods won the bid to harvest chum salmon at Crawfish Inlet. SSS plans to exercise their option to harvest there, perhaps as early as August 17 or 18. The Crawfish Inlet program was started in 2016 and expecting a modest show of three-year-olds this year. However, the proportion of 3s is quite strong with 22% 3s in the troll catch, and of these, more than half are from the Crawfish release. NSRAA is required to keep the terminal area mopped up of chum to reduce straying. Trollers have priority in Crawfish Inlet, but NSRAA is required to harvest any surplus every 7 to 10 days....
Read MoreDeep Inlet to Close August 19 2017
Deep Inlet will close at 11:59 p.m. on August 19th for cost recovery harvest. We will harvest approximately 200,000 chum salmon or 1.6 million pounds (the ADF&G announcement was incorrect). We expect the closure to last about ten days. August 20 & 21 will be common property seine days with no harvest in Deep Inlet expected. Cost recovery harvest will begin on August 22 after three build-up days that will closely coincide with the peak of the Deep Inlet run. The Special Harvest Area (SHA) for cost recovery harvest includes the waters east of a line from Cape Burunof to Makhnati. Cost...
Read MoreDeep Inlet – August 11 2017
We will announce a Deep Inlet closure date next Tuesday August 15th. It is likely we will close August 19th after the troll opening. We expect to see a major shift in the chum run over the weekend as a low pressure system enters SE Alaska. The gillnet fleet has already noticed a change in chum numbers entering Deep Inlet. The 50 boat troll fleet saw a significant movement of chum from the Biorka to St. Larzaria line on Wednesday to a line from Vitskari Rocks to Povorotni Point today. The troll harvest rate has been running about 12,000 fish/day. We will evaluate the sex ratio and catch...
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