Overview Of The 2017 Southeast Alaska And Yakutat Commercial Personal Use And Subsistence Salmon Fisheries

Author : Sara Conrad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Overview of the 2015 Southeast Alaska and Yakutat Commercial, Personal Use, and Subsistence Salmon Fisheries written by Sara Conrad and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southeast Alaska and Yakutat commercial, personal use, and subsistence salmon fisheries are summarized for the 2015 season. Historical harvests are provided for comparison. Total commercial harvest in 2015 was 50.6 million salmon with an initially estimated exvessel value of $119 million. Harvest by species in 2015 included 351,000 Chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), 1.5 million sockeye (O. nerka), 2.1 million coho (O. kisutch), 35.1 million pink (O. gorbuscha), and 11.5 million chum salmon (O. keta). In the purse seine fishery, 277 permit holders harvested 38.2 million salmon, including 32.2 million pink and 4.8 million chum salmon. In the drift gillnet fishery, 422 permit holders harvested 5.3 million salmon, including 3.3 million chum, 1.4 million pink, 390,000 sockeye, 251,000 coho, and 29,000 Chinook salmon. In the troll fishery, 747 power troll and 331 hand troll permit holders (1,078 total fishermen) harvested 270,000 Chinook, 1.2 million coho, and 424,000 chum salmon. In the set gillnet fishery, 112 permit holders harvested 83,000 sockeye and 129,000 coho salmon. Hatchery organizations harvested a total of 2.9 million salmon for cost recovery, including 2.3 million chum salmon. In the 2015 personal use and subsistence fisheries, 3,023 household permits were issued in Southeast Alaska and Yakutat combined. Harvest reporting for 2015 is incomplete, and reported harvest for 2014 with 88% of permits returned is about 44,000 salmon.