Author : Nicole L. Zeiser
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (957 download)
Book Synopsis Annual Management Report of the 2015 Yakutat Area Commercial Salmon Fisheries by : Nicole L. Zeiser
Download or read book Annual Management Report of the 2015 Yakutat Area Commercial Salmon Fisheries written by Nicole L. Zeiser and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2015 Yakutat set gillnet fishery harvest of approximately 300,000 salmon was 17% below the recent 10-year average. The total harvest included 900 Chinook, 83,000 sockeye, 130,000 coho, 69,000 pink, and 700 chum salmon. The salmon harvest had an approximate exvessel value of $1.4 million which was 67% of the 2014 exvessel value. The Yakutat set gillnet fishery was comprised of 112 acitve permit holders, slightly below the recent 10-year average. The 2015 sockeye salmon harvest of nearly 83,000 fish was 36% below the 10-year average. Sockeye salmon harvests in almost all Yakutat District fisheries were below average in 2015. Biological Escapement Goals (BEG) for sockeye salmon were met in all sockeye salmon producing systems, with the exception of the Lost River. The total coho salmon harvest of 130,000 was slightly above the recent 10-year average. The Situk-Ahrnklin River produced 86% of the total Yakutat Area coho salmon harvest, with the Tsiu River as the second-largest producer. The Chinook salmon harvest of 900 was 26% below the 10-year average. The top Chinook salmon producers were Yakutat Bay and the Alsek River. The 2015 preseason projection was for a total run of approximately 600 large Chinook salmon returning to the Situk River. Given recent fishery and harvest trends, a run of that size is not expected to achieve the escapement goal without fishery restrictions; subsistence, sport, and commercial fisheries were closed for Situk River Chinook salmon. The pink salmon harvest of nearly 69,000 fish was 20% below the recent 10-year average. The chum salmon harvest of 700 was half the 10-year average. The Situk-Ahrnklin Inlet and Yakutat Bay fisheries produced most of the pink salmon which were incidental to the sockeye salmon harvest.