We will suspend cost recovery after Wednesday and have a common property seine opening Thursday September 6th. I will need to confer with ADF&G tomorrow morning for this to be official; expect ADF&G to get an announcement out Tuesday afternoon.
Sampling at Shamrock Bay and Crawfish Inlet today showed brighter fish and slightly more females at Shamrock. My observations on the two harvest boats and tender in Shamrock Bay was no very dark or nasty chum and only low numbers of gillers in the web. Fish density in Shamrock was lower than expected with only 200,000 lbs of chum taken. This seems to confirm that the chum move through West Crawfish and up into the inlets such as Shamrock, but then back out and continue on to Crawfish Inlet. Additional evidence for this is that the trollers were not happy with the harvest boats fishing in Shamrock, which suggests the trollers fish on chum moving east in West Crawfish but also west as the fish leave Shamrock and head to Cedar Pass.
Look for the ADF&G announcement and good luck.
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