Petersburg Meeting – NSRAA Board of Directors
NSRAA’s Spring 2014 Board of Directors Meeting will be held in Petersburg this year! The meeting will be held March 4-5, 2014 in the Lutheran Church, beginning at 9 a.m. each day. Topics will include planning for the 2014 fishing season, FY15 budget, chum expansion plans, Board of Fish Proposals, project reviews and more. See the agenda for more details. Proceedings are open to the public. Please come join us and meet NSRAA’s board members and staff. Agenda Poster: click to enlarge:
Read MoreHidden Falls Dock Update
Construction is moving along nicely on the Hidden Falls dock project. The gangway is under construction and won’t arrive on-site for awhile. In the meantime, the old gangway is being used for dock access. Much of the work on the ramp, pier and dock is complete and is already seeing some use. What an amazing improvement from the old dock!
Read MoreDeep Inlet Return Over 2 Million and Climbing…..Slowly
Deep Inlet gillnet catch on Saturday was bigger than I expected with some 50,000 chum caught. Sunday’s seine catch looks to be about 50,000 also based on early catch reports. Seiners continue fishing chum today in common property areas of Sitka Sound and the gillnet fleet is back in the Deep Inlet THA. Trolling is mostly done in Eastern Channel and Sitka Sound but not before the trollers harvested about 400,000 chum. Congratulations to the troll fleet. Egg takes have started at Medvejie with over 8 million eggs taken over the weekend. Between this and the high female sex ratio in the...
Read MoreDeep Inlet Chum & Mist Cove Coho
Deep Inlet in-season forecast is 2.5 million chum, nearly double the preseason number. Last week saw 440,000 fish caught and may have been the peak, but the current week is already at 176,000 with only Sunday’s catch represented. Total return to date is 1.74 million, so we expect another 800,000 fish in the run. I would add this is probably conservative. The Deep Inlet troll catch is dropping off rapidly, coinciding with the heavy rains on Saturday.The total troll catch is 410,000 and close to a new record. If it weren’t for the processor harvest limits and changes to price...
Read MoreDeep Inlet Second Run Heating Up
The early chum run (Hidden Falls stock) harvest came in at about 520,000, approximately double the forecast. The fall run harvest to date is roughly 250,000, although the data reporting runs behind actual catch somewhat. The total catch last week was 130,000 fish; the trollers taking 75,000 of those with a fleet of ~50 boats, although the boat count this week is 70. Given the catch rates, it suggests there must be a large body of fish outside Deep Inlet THA from Biorka to Vitskari to Eastern Channel. In addition, even with good coho fishing near by, the chum troll fleet continues to grow....
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