NSRAA Fall 2018 Board of Directors Meeting
NSRAA’s 2018 Fall Board of Directors Meeting will be held on Wednesday & Thursday, November 14-15, 2018 in Sitka in the NSRAA Board Room. Meetings begin at 9 am each day. The public is invited to attend. Topics will include a review of the 2018 season, program updates, a discussion of the proposed NOAA Little Port Walter Public/Private Partenership, a Pacific Salmon Treaty update, and planning for the 2019 season – including Crawfish Inlet management. Click here for the meeting agenda.
Read MoreCrawfish Inlet SHA to Open Sept. 13
There will be a common property seine opening at Crawfish Inlet on Thursday September 13th. Look for the official ADF&G announcement on Tuesday September 11th. I expect there will be one or two additional openings to clean up the tail-end of the run (announcement possibly on Friday, September 14th). Cost recovery is expected to harvest <one million pounds total between today and Tuesday with no cost recovery on Wednesday. The run to date is just over 3 million fish; 1.6 million have been harvested by the seine fleet and 220,000 by the troll fleet. Approximately 480,000 chum were...
Read MoreCrawfish Inlet to Open Thursday Sept. 6
We will suspend cost recovery after Wednesday and have a common property seine opening Thursday September 6th. I will need to confer with ADF&G tomorrow morning for this to be official; expect ADF&G to get an announcement out Tuesday afternoon. Sampling at Shamrock Bay and Crawfish Inlet today showed brighter fish and slightly more females at Shamrock. My observations on the two harvest boats and tender in Shamrock Bay was no very dark or nasty chum and only low numbers of gillers in the web. Fish density in Shamrock was lower than expected with only 200,000 lbs of chum taken. This...
Read MoreCrawfish Inlet Update September 3
The Crawfish Inlet run continues to develop with exceptionally strong 3s at about 82% of the run or 1.5 million fish, and surprisingly low 4s (330,000 fish), although not terrible, lower than expected. The run isn’t over so I am hoping more of the remaining females are 4s rather than 3s. We are seeing a bump in female ratio with the last two CR harvests and seine samples close to 40%. Today’s CR harvest appears closer to 50%. The sex ratio is another anomaly – 75% males so far, this is likely driven by the high number of 3s which tend to be precocious males. These unusual...
Read MoreHidden Falls: Sunday June 17, 2018 Opening
The initial Hidden Falls opening is coming up on Sunday, June 17. Note that the THA is restricted to approximately 1 mile offshore, due to this spring’s Chinook restrictions. An excerp from the June 7 ADF&G News Release: District 12 The following area will be open to purse seining from 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Sunday, June 17, 2018: Section 12-A: will be open in the following areas: Point Augusta: will be open within 0.5 nautical miles from the Chichagof Island shoreline south of 58°03.00′ N. latitude and north of a regulatory marker at 58°01.63′ N. latitude (located one...
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