Author : Sara Conrad
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (112 download)
Book Synopsis Overview of the 2018 Southeast Alaska and Yakutat Commercial, Personal Use, and Subsistence Salmon Fisheries by : Sara Conrad
Download or read book Overview of the 2018 Southeast Alaska and Yakutat Commercial, Personal Use, and Subsistence Salmon Fisheries written by Sara Conrad and published by . This book was released on 2019 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 2018 season. Historical harvests are provided for comparison. Total commercial harvest in 2018 was 22.0 million salmon with an initial estimated exvessel value of $131 million. Harvest by species in 2018 included 160,000 Chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), 637,000 sockeye (O. nerka), 1.6 million coho (O. kisutch), 8.1 million pink (O. gorbuscha), and 11.5 million chum salmon (O. keta). In the purse seine fishery, 247 permit holders harvested 12.2 million salmon, including 6.9 million pink and 5.0 million chum salmon. In the drift gillnet fishery, 421 permit holders harvested 3.6 million salmon, including 2.5 million chum, 556,000 pink, 259,000 coho, 227,000 sockeye, and 21,000 Chinook salmon. In the troll fishery, 672 power troll and 227 hand troll permit holders (899 total fishermen) harvested 100,000 Chinook, 938,000 coho, and 531,000 chum salmon. In the set gillnet fishery, 103 permit holders harvested 7,000 sockeye and 96,000 coho salmon. Hatchery organizations harvested a total of 3.8 million salmon for cost recovery including 3.2 million chum salmon. In the 2018 personal use and subsistence fisheries, 3,568 household permits were issued in Southeast Alaska and Yakutat combined. Harvest reporting for 2018 is incomplete, and reported harvest for 2017 with 77% of permits returned is about 39,000 salmon.