Author : Grant Hagerman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (119 download)
Book Synopsis Annual Management Report for the 2019 Southeast Alaska/Yakutat Salmon Troll Fisheries by : Grant Hagerman
Download or read book Annual Management Report for the 2019 Southeast Alaska/Yakutat Salmon Troll Fisheries written by Grant Hagerman and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report describes the Southeast Alaska/Yakutat salmon troll fishery, management methods, and actions taken by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game during the 2019 accounting period, which occurred from October 1, 2018, through September 30, 2019. Approximately 1.43 million salmon were harvested in the 2019 Southeast Alaska troll fishery. Of this, 39,000 salmon (3%) were taken by hand troll gear and 1.39 million salmon (97%) by power troll gear. The harvest included 109,000 Chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), 6,000 sockeye (O. nerka), 973,000 coho (O. kisutch), 70,000 pink (O. gorbuscha), and 270,000 chum (O. keta) salmon landed by 664 power troll and 230 hand troll permit holders during the 2019 calendar year. The Chinook salmon harvest ranked as the second lowest on record over the last 60 years since statehood, whereas the coho salmon and chum salmon harvests ranked thirty-seventh and seventeenth over the same time period, respectively. The preliminary estimated Alaska hatchery contribution of Chinook salmon to the troll fishery, including hatchery terminal harvest, was 8,841 fish (8%). A total of 313,459 coho salmon produced by Alaska hatcheries were harvested by the troll fleet, which accounted for 33% of the total troll coho salmon harvest. Chinook salmon escapements for seven out of 11 Southeast Alaska rivers were within the desired escapement goal ranges, whereas coho salmon escapements were mostly within or above the desired escapement goal ranges.