Record Breaking Salmon Harvest in Alaska - Article dated Sept 2013...

[Feeling Nauti]

While looking for a specific article on the Underwater Times, I can across this from an Alaska Radio Stations Website. I thought it might be of interest to member of our forum, especially when you check out the numbers of fish caught for specific species.

"By Mike Mason

The commercial salmon harvest this year in Alaska has set an all-time record due primarily to huge returns of pink salmon. The latest statewide total from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game puts this year’s salmon harvest at over 269-million fish.

The vast majority of the harvest, 216-million to be exact, was pink salmon. Over 84-million pinks were taken in the seine fisheries in Prince William Sound and another 47-million pinks were taken in the southern Southeast seine fisheries with another 38-million taken in the northern Southeast seine fishery. The pink harvest in the Kodiak area was well over 28-million fish.

This year’s statewide sockeye harvest totaled over 29.5-million fish with over 15.7-million sockeye taken in the Bristol Bay fishery. The harvest in the Egegik District was 4.8-million sockeye and the harvest in the Naknek-Kvichak District was just over 5-million. The sockeye harvest in the Nushagak Dsitrict was over 3.1-million fish and the harvest down in the Ugashik District was just over 2.1-million sockeye. The sockeye harvest in the Alaska Peninsula region was over 2.9-million and the harvest in the Kodiak region was over 2.5-million fish.

The statewide coho harvest was recorded at over 5.1-million fish and the statewide chum harvest was just over 18-million. The statewide king salmon harvest was about 307-thousand fish. This year’s total commercial salmon harvest in Alaska of over 269-million fish shattered the old record of nearly 222-million salmon recorded back in 2005. This year’s statewide pink harvest of over 216-million far exceeded the old record of 161-million pinks recorded in 2005"

Here's the link to the article - http://kdlg.org/post/record-breaking-salmon-harvest-year-alaska

 

[wishiniwasfishin1]

Those are shocking numbers... Are they doing that good a job of management that they can afford to harvest that many fish? I wonder how many of those fish (sockeye in particular) were headed for BC waters?

 

[eaglemaniac]

Those are very good questions there wishin. I was wondering the same things. eman

 

[waddy29]

Jesus murphy

 

[JAC]

So does this mean there is lots if salmon and we should see good numbers ot did they take way more than they should??? Time will tell. What do you do with 222 million pinks??

 

[el.Pereh]

So does this mean there is lots if salmon and we should see good numbers ot did they take way more than they should??? Time will tell. What do you do with 222 million pinks??

Costco salmon burgers

 

[SpringFever552]

Just assuming here,,,,but those # of fish(especially the pinks and sockeye) must be from the alsaka hatchery(farmed)program...where they raise billions of fish in nets for the first part of their lives and then set them free for the last part of their life cycle..and then scoop them up after they return from open ocean...so I've heard...but I'm probably wrong

 

[Derby]

Perhaps that is why the Skeena system sucked for steelhead this fall...

 

[onefish]

Perhaps that is why the Skeena system sucked for steelhead this fall...

The seine fishery in SE Alaska has been wiping out Canadian stocks for years, especially skeena stocks. Alaska cannot be hurt by anything BC does so they just continue to fish regardless. I see plenty of rivers coming out of BC that empty into Alaskan waters that would make terrific Hydro electric projects, just sayin?

 

[Derby]

Yup...Alaska has pretty well done as it wants too...that's would be one of the reasons why we get to harvest some many of the US bound Columbian river fish...