Preliminary 2021 Alaska salmon harvests and values are in, and most regions did well

[wildmanyeah]

Preliminary 2021 Alaska salmon harvests and values are in, and most regions did well​

Preliminary 2021 Alaska salmon harvests and values are in, and most regions did well

The fishery produced the third highest catch, fish poundage and value on record dating back to 1975.

www.adn.com

 

[Sharphooks]

It’s worth noting that 56% of the huge numbers put in by value were sockeye. Some areas that had marginal sockeye last year came in big this year. It seems strong evidence that sockeye is the one salmon species that foir the short term anyway, gets to dodge global warming trends. Temperatures of lakes go north and we get the huge plankton blooms associated with spikes in sockeye smolt growth during the freshwater phase.

The question is: with all that netting effort launched on the sockeye, especially in Southeast Alaska, how does that effect the incidental catch of BC steelhead?

 

[agentaqua]

https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/560...ing-huge-proportion-of-b-c-salmon-new-report/

Southeastern Alaska Catch of BC Salmon: Summary and Reports | Pacific Marine Conservation Caucus

Alaskan fisheries in Southeast Alaska (SEAK) intercept salmon returning to British Columbia (BC) rivers. Given the current depressed status of many BC wild salmon populations, and in the context of…

www.mccpacific.org

 

[wildmanyeah]

https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/560...ing-huge-proportion-of-b-c-salmon-new-report/

Southeastern Alaska Catch of BC Salmon: Summary and Reports | Pacific Marine Conservation Caucus

Alaskan fisheries in Southeast Alaska (SEAK) intercept salmon returning to British Columbia (BC) rivers. Given the current depressed status of many BC wild salmon populations, and in the context of…

www.mccpacific.org

ITs positive to see that the MCC is running out of juice to squeeze in BC.

 

[wildmanyeah]

CWT Indicator Stocks

We downloaded the mortality distribution tables for all CTC indicator stocks (PSC CTC 2021), which contains exploitation rate data derived from CWT recoveries in fisheries from Alaska to California. We then extracted the information for Canadian stocks and manipulated the data for analysis in R. The mortality distribution tables provide estimates of mortality in fisheries for CTC indicator stocks.

These were converted to ERs and SEAK fishery data was compiled. Six SEAK fisheries were identified, SEAK net, troll and sport, and SEAK Terminal net, troll and sport. We did not include the Terminal fisheries for stocks that return to north and south coast BC in figures, since they have extremely low ERs on all stocks in the vast majority of years (not including Transboundary Rivers, which have much higher terminal SEAK ERs). However they are included in calculations of total SEAK ER by stock. We identified 15 stocks with information on SEAK ERs in our summary.

• Median exploitation rates in SEAK net and sport fisheries range from 0 to ~ 5%, and median ERs in SEAK troll fisheries range from 0 to 15% (Figure 15). SEAK troll fisheries have the highest median ERs for all stocks. Stocks from all regions (ECVI, Fraser, ISC, North Coast, and WCVI) have significant ERs in SEAK fisheries.

• Furthermore, 2 groups of stocks are immediately apparent; there are many stocks (Nanaimo, Cowichan, Harrison, Chilliwak, Nicola and Dome) that have very low presence in any of the SEAK fisheries. This is consistent with what we know about their life history and marine distribution patterns (see for example Riddell et al. 2013).

• Median total SEAK ERs range from near 0 to 20% (Table 2, Figure 16)Table 2: Median total and fishery specific SEAK ERs for CTC indicator stocks included in this summary.. There is no consistent pattern across regions, SEAK ERs are highest on Robertson Chinook, followed by Kitsumkalum and Quinsum, and then Phillips, Lower Shuswap, Atnarko, Big Qualicum, Middle Shuswap and Puntlege. Table 2: Median total and fishery specific SEAK ERs for CTC indicator stocks included in this summary.

 

[wildmanyeah]

Alaskan fishers intercepting B.C. salmon at 'jarring' rate

A new report says the majority of 800,000 sockeye salmon caught in southern Alaska in 2021 were headed to B.C. rivers. The preliminary data comes as Pacific salmon face major declines and B.C. fishers are severely restricted from fishing in their own waters.

www.alaskahighwaynews.ca

Most of the B.C.-bound fish caught north of the border are intercepted on the south side of the Alaskan panhandle in Fishing District 104. According to the report, seine nets in District 104 catch 50 to 75 per cent of all Skeena sockeye caught in the southern reaches of Alaska, and between about 10 and 50 per cent of all Nass sockeye

As far as Fraser River sockeye intercepted in District 104, they can make up more than half of the total sockeye catch in late August. In 2019, the amount of Fraser River sockeye pulled out of Alaska’s southern waters exceeded that of Canada’s. That will likely happen again in 2021, notes the report.

 

[Steplift]

What about the salmon that run up the Stikine and Thaltan rivers they had a big runs of sockeye and chinook. The Americans ladder netted across the mount of the Stikine letting few pass up to the spawning beds.

 

[Breakin"even]

Alaskan fishers intercepting B.C. salmon at 'jarring' rate​

A new report says the majority of 800,000 sockeye salmon caught in southern Alaska in 2021 were headed to B.C. rivers. The preliminary data comes as Pacific salmon face major declines and B.C. fishers are severely restricted from fishing in their own waters.

 

[onefish]

The USA does what it wants. That includes raping Canadian fish at the Alaskan border while getting the Canadian troll fleet shut down on the WCVI to restrict interception of southern US based stocks. Another failure of DFO and the Canadian govt.

 

[agentaqua]

Unfair and Biased Attack on Alaska Salmon Fisheries, Special Interest Hit Piece: Press Release, Alaska Department of Fish and Game

Unfair and Biased Attack on Alaska Salmon Fisheries, Special Interest Hit Piece: Alaska Department of Fish and Game Press Release

www.adfg.alaska.gov

 

[SpringVelocity]

"I was disappointed by what I consider to be a targeted attack on Southeast Alaska salmon fisheries by these special interest groups."

join the club

 

[wildmanyeah]

He didn’t say that the data was wrong tho

 

[searun]

He didn’t say that the data was wrong tho

Maybe not, but lets also not forget that Canada signed a Pacific Salmon Treaty that trades US (AK) access to our fish in exchange for Canada to intercept Southern US fish. Canada in her wise dumb decides to close our WCVI waters to retention of hatchery marked Chinook, the majority of whom are Southern US fish we traded access under the treaty. Go figure, funny how its the ENGO's who authored these reports that similarly in BC argued we needed to close the off shore waters of WCVI to retention of those same treaty fish. Sucking and blowing

 

[wildmanyeah]

Yep we should be hammering the American fish on the inside too.

sad that our goverment has choose to restrict our acess to fish they negotiated for

 

[agentaqua]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/salmon-treaty-failures-1.6353626

 

[onefish]

It is well known that south east Alaska fisheries have been hammering Canadian and southern bound US stocks. Alaska is at the top of the food chain. They have zero incentive to negotiate anything. The USA only responds to those that have a strong hand. Look at how they come running to the table when Putin starts sabre rattling.
Canada has two cards to play. The first is to increase, or threaten to increase, the catch of southern US bound stocks off the west coast of the Queen Charlottes and the WCVI. The second is to green light mining projects in northern BC where the discharge flows into the Alaskan panhandle rivers. We have already virtually eliminated the byecatch of US bound stocks. Asking them to "please help us out" has zero chance of succeeding.