The Crawfish Inlet run continues to develop with exceptionally strong 3s at about 82% of the run or 1.5 million fish, and surprisingly low 4s (330,000 fish), although not terrible, lower than expected. The run isn’t over so I am hoping more of the remaining females are 4s rather than 3s. We are seeing a bump in female ratio with the last two CR harvests and seine samples close to 40%. Today’s CR harvest appears closer to 50%.
The sex ratio is another anomaly – 75% males so far, this is likely driven by the high number of 3s which tend to be precocious males. These unusual data make predicting where we are in the run and forecasting next year’s run difficult. Nevertheless, I expect another several hundred thousand fish before it is all done. The run total to date is about 2.1 million fish and will likely hit 2.5 million or better.
Cost recovery will continue tomorrow Sept. 4th.
The troll fishery at West Crawfish continues to be robust with 25 boats and a total harvest of 175,000 chum.
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