Author : Sara Conrad
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Book Synopsis Overview of the 2021 Southeast Alaska and Yakutat Commercial, Personal Use, and Subsistence Salmon Fisheries by : Sara Conrad
Download or read book Overview of the 2021 Southeast Alaska and Yakutat Commercial, Personal Use, and Subsistence Salmon Fisheries written by Sara Conrad and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southeast Alaska and Yakutat commercial, personal use, and subsistence salmon fisheries are summarized for the 2021 season. Historical harvests are provided for comparison. Total commercial harvest in 2021 was 58.9 million salmon with an estimated exvessel value of $143 million. Harvest by species in 2021 included 226,000 Chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), 1.1 million sockeye (O. nerka), 1.6 million coho (O. kisutch), 48.5 million pink (O. gorbuscha), and 7.4 million chum (O. keta) salmon. In the purse seine fishery, 208 permit holders harvested 48.2 million salmon, including 44.5 million pink and 2.6 million chum salmon. In the drift gillnet fishery, 371 permit holders harvested 2.6 million salmon, including 1.5 million chum, 673,000 pink, 209,000 sockeye, 193,000 coho, and 17,000 Chinook salmon. In the troll fishery, 629 power troll and 202 hand troll permit holders (831 total permits) harvested 163,000 Chinook, 849,000 coho, and 704,000 chum salmon. In the set gillnet fishery, 95 permit holders harvested 88,000 sockeye and 75,000 coho salmon. Hatchery organizations harvested a total of 3 million salmon for cost recovery including 2.5 million chum salmon. In the 2021 subsistence/personal use fisheries, 3,077 household permits were issued for fishing in Southeast Alaska and Yakutat; reported 2021 harvest to date is 30,714 salmon.