Cost recovery at Crawfish Inlet has gone very well the last few days and we are now at 60% complete. It is likely cost recovery will be complete Tuesday 8/24 and Crawfish Inlet will open to commercial seine Thur/Fri and mirror the Deep Inlet schedule the rest of the season. ADFG announcement will likely go out Tuesday afternoon. The last few days there has been a buildup in West Crawfish in Shamrock Bay and we have been performing cost recovery there as well. ADFG will look at buildup in West Crawfish next week and determine if a seine opening is warranted in West Crawfish as occurred last year.
Based upon observations at Bear Cove we now appear to have sufficient brood stock and will begin fall chum spawning next week. There continues to be large numbers of chum in Silver Bay from Entry Point to Bear Cove and troll harvest continues to be excellent from Silver Bay out past the Eckholms. It is almost certain that the NSRAA chum troll catch will break the 2013 record of 455k fish. Net fishing at Deep Inlet is going well but slower than would be anticipated by the adjacent troll harvest. The larger number of boats at Deep Inlet is also spreading out the catch reducing the per boat average. Based upon past fish behavior the chum will eventually stop biting for the trollers and push into Deep Inlet, question is when.
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