Crawfish Inlet Chum Cost Recovery 31 August
Crawfish Inlet is in its maiden year for adult returns. Normally we would not expect many 3 year olds but this year is one for the books. We have accounted for over 40,000 fish, most of which has been harvested for cost recovery. A harvest boat will continue to harvest through Saturday. Depending on fish abundance and behavior we may suspend cost recovery for a few days to allow troll opportunity next week.
Read MoreDeep 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 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 MoreHidden Falls and Deep Inlet – June 26 2017
The fishing season is off to a mixed start and there is sufficient information to predict what is likely to unfold for the Hidden Falls and early run Deep Inlet chum programs. First Hidden Falls: the first two openings were disappointing but not unexpected. The return to date is about 10,000 chum through June 25th, which is similar to last year and worse than 2015. Therefore, Hidden Falls will not open for the foreseeable future. We will concentrate on broodstock – we need approximately 220,000 adults to fully satisfy our programs at Kasnyku Bay (75 million eggs), Thomas Bay (25...
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