06 Oct

Posted at 09:00h in Common Property Update, Fall Coho

2016 SSRAA Coho, Including Klawock Hatchery Production: October 6 The all gear harvest of the Chickamin stock (most SSRAA releases) decreased through the past 10 days as fisheries closed and effort decreased; and as the remaining fish moved to the terminal areas. The Klawock Lake stock...

18 Sep

Posted at 12:16h in Common Property Update, Fall Chum

SSRAA Fall Chum, 20 September 2016: Fall chum returning this year come almost entirely from releases at Nakat and Neets Bay. In addition, there are three-year-olds from a release at Burnett Inlet, though few fall chum return at 3 years old. The weekly harvest (drift) of fall...

18 Sep

Posted at 07:00h in Current Fisheries Info

The Last Dog is Dead: Neets Bay Chum Troll, 20 September 2016: There are trollers working the Behm from Clover Pass out to Chin Point, but at this point they are all fishing coho. There are very few fall chum available outside the Neets Bay SHA...

11 Sep

Posted at 13:45h in Current Fisheries Info

12 September: Cost Recovery Update: We have turned the page to fall chum. Cost recovery and broodstock collection started on the 1st of September. The run was early last year; broodstock and harvest started substantially on the 1st of September. This is not the case this year,...

06 Sep

Posted at 15:37h in Chinook, Common Property Update, News

7 September, 2016 Chinook Return Summary: Chinook survival/return from SE sources was not good in 2016. The adult return to almost every index stream was below the escapement level and enhanced stocks generally did not do well. For whatever reason, and there isn’t a silver bullet...

15 Aug

Posted at 01:21h in Common Property Update, Snow Pass Coho

Snow Pass “Summer” Coho Harvest 13 August 2016: There were an estimated 2,500 coho harvested in District 106.  At this point, very few of those are SSRAA summer coho.  Participation in the D106 drift fishery also decreased this past week.  While the fishery in D106 not...

09 Jun

Posted at 13:15h in News

                                                                        10 June2016 Chinook Harvest Update: We don’t often try to assess the chinook return until the first of July. While much of the annual harvest has taken place by that time, the data from terminal net fisheries has not been generally available before then. While there...