NSRAA Fall Board Meeting: November 9-10 in Sitka
NSRAA’s 2016 Fall Board of Directors Meeting will be held on Wednesday & Thursday, November 9-10, 2016 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 2016 season, program updates and planning for the 2017 season and beyond. To view the agenda, the full board book and staff presentations, visit our Board Info page.
Read MoreDeep Inlet Update – August 29
Deep Inlet opened to Trolling on Saturday. There was some effort by the Troll fleet, although I don’t have catch numbers yet. Sunday was a Seine day; using preliminary numbers it appears approximately 120,000 chum salmon were caught. This was a pleasant surprise and strengthens my belief that the fall run is anomalous in run timing and behavior. It seems likely that this week will see the largest catch of this year’s fall run. Total run Summer (~600,000) and Fall (~600,000) is 1.2 million chum to date. Eggtakes are going well – 24 million eggs through Sunday with 68 million...
Read MoreDeep Inlet to Open Saturday August 27 for Troll, Sunday Seine……
Thursday August 25 at 2 pm ADF&G announced that Deep Inlet would reopen on Saturday August 27 beginning with a Troll rotation, followed by Seine on August 28, and Gillnet on August 29. This puts the fishery rotation in the normal sequence for the remainder of the season. Cost recovery should be completed today, August 26. There is something less than 100,000 lbs. remaining. We will make the final tally today and hope to close it out. If we do not complete cost recovery today we may harvest outside of the Deep Inlet THA but within NSRAA’s larger SHA. Broodstock numbers look good at...
Read MoreDeep Inlet Cost Recovery – August 24 Update
The chum are increasing by the day. We harvested 300,000 lbs on August 23 and already have 60,000 lbs this morning. That leaves 465,000 lbs to complete cost recovery. We expect to finish cost recovery sometime today or tomorrow. If we do finish cost recovery we will get an announcement out on Thursday or Friday. Most likely scenario is Troll Saturday, Seine Sunday, and Gillnet Monday/Tuesday.
Read MoreDeep Inlet Cost Recovery – August 23
Cost recovery boats caught 255,000 lbs yesterday. Total remaining is 825,000 lbs. SSS boats are fishing today. With some luck we should be finished by this weekend.
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