Deep Inlet has been closed for 5 days now but few fish have shown up at the head of the inlet. There were a few jumps yesterday but no small or large bodies of fish. The fish were either deep or not there. Medvejie/Bear Cove looks much better, with an estimated 45,000 chum. Chum eggtakes begin tomorrow and I will have another estimate by tonight.
Net pens are being towed to the head of Deep Inlet today and we will have a purse seiner at Deep Inlet this weekend or Monday. If there are fish the seiner will roll them into the net pens. However, if we don’t see fish we will conduct some test sets to determine if they are holding deep or truly not there.
I am confident we will get our broodstock, although it might not happen as quickly as we want. There were 13,000 chum caught on Saturday with a 50/50 sex ratio. Total catch for the week was 50,000. With those pieces of data and a 30-year run history, we know there has to be 100,000 or more fish left in the run.
Anxious but still optimistic.
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