June 21st, Weekly Return Update
This past week summer chum returns to Hidden Falls and Deep Inlet continue to be strong and the first reported harvest at SE Cove which is tracking on the historical high side of return numbers for current stat week. Hidden Falls and Deep Inlet continue to be majority 4-year-olds making up over 79% of harvest at Hidden Falls and over 90% for Deep Inlet. Hidden Falls will have an estimated 75K total adult chum harvest this week and Deep Inlet will come in around 100k after today’s seine harvest is complete. The chum harvest at Hidden Falls this stat week will be the third highest on record...
Read MoreDeep Inlet Cost Recovery Closure Reminder-June 19th
Reminder that Deep Inlet proper from the neck to the head is currently closed to common property fishing to allow for cost recovery harvest. The line coordinates are covered in the April 25th ADFG Advisory Announcement. Excerpt below of the relevant coordinates and Full Advisory Announcement may be found here- ADFG Terminal Harvest Area AA 4/25/24
Read MoreJune 14th, Weekly Return Update
This week summer run chum return numbers to Deep Inlet are rapidly increasing. Last week things began to look promising as the Gillnet chum harvest was over 3,500 fish. This overall isn’t a large number but when put in context is more than double the previous stat week record in 2015 of 1,500 fish. This week will blow the previous record out of the water and we may be on track to break 50,000 chum harvest for stat week 24, previous record was 10,800. This will be 5 times the previous 2015 stat week record and begins to put us on track for the high end or our pre-season forecast. While it is...
Read MoreAWARDED Cost Recovery Bids: 2024 Season
See below request for proposal documents and winners for 2024 cost recovery bids. Silver Bay Seafoods – Chum Cost Recovery – Crawfish Inlet and West Crawfish Inlet Silver Bay Seafoods – Chum Cost Recovery – Sitka Area Trident Seafoods – Chum Cost Recovery – Southeast Cove and Gunnuk Creek Silver Bay Seafoods – Chum Cost Recovery – Hidden Falls No Bidders – Carcasses – All Sites E.C. Phillips – Coho – Hidden Falls and Mist...
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