Summer chum egg takes are well underway at Hidden Falls, Gunnuk Creek and Medvejie hatchery. By Wednesday we are 75% complete at Hidden Falls, 50% complete at Gunnuk Creek and 40% complete at Medvejie. Currently Medvejie appears to be on the tail end of their summer chum recruitment and will like be short of their 30m goal by ~8m. Both Hidden Falls and Gunnuk Creek look like our pre-season brood stock escapement goals will be met. Unfortunately both of those facilities are running greater than 60% male, which on a normal year would indicate we are less than halfway through the return. This year though we have seen a sharp drop off on chum returns and will not likely reach a 50/50 sex ratio on the overall chum returns at those two facilities, similar to last year. A shortfall at Medvejie will be backfilled from Hidden Falls or Gunnuk Creek assuming brood is available.
Returns of fall chum are just now beginning to show up. This past week the catch at Deep Inlet has seen a slow increase and the sex ratio has climbed back up from a low of 39% male in stat wk 29 to 68% male in stat wk 30. There are a few early Crawfish Inlet chum beginning to return to the area with several trollers working the outer West Crawfish area this week. Currently there are scattered jumps in the outer West Crawfish area with little sign further east in West Crawfish or the Crawfish Inlet SHA. Cost Recovery in Crawfish Inlet will begin next week, likely on Wednesday or Thursday and continue until the goal is achieved. Progress toward the goal can be tracked at the following web page link:https: //www.nsraa.org/?page_id=5448
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