Weekly Alaska Salmon Harvest Updates are produced for ASMI by the McKinley Research Group

2024 Weekly Alaska Salmon Harvest Update #9

Harvest Through 8/17/2024 (Statistical Week 33)

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• Alaska salmon harvest volumes inched up compared to year-to-date benchmarks last week, largely due to increased pink salmon harvests in Southeast Alaska. However, the catch remains well behind 2023.

• The sockeye catch, almost complete for the season, is down 20% from 2023 in keeping with the forecast of a smaller 2024 harvest. The YTD harvest has already exceeded the pre-season sockeye forecast.

• Southeast pink salmon harvests are now up 6% from 2022, the only major pink salmon region with increased harvest. More than 80% of the Southeast pink harvest has taken place in the southern Southeast purse seine fishery.

• Chinook harvests are down 25%. A ruling last week from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower court ruling that sought to close the summer and winter troll fishery in Southeast Alaska, the fishery that catches most of Alaska’s Pacific Salmon Treaty share of Chinook salmon. The ruling allows the fishery to continue, although this fishery is usually winding down at this point in August. 

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2024 Average Fish Weights

• Bristol Bay drift gillnet sockeye: 4.2 pounds
• Southeast troll fisheries: Chinook 10.6 lbs., coho 5.0 lbs., keta 7.0 lbs.
• Taku Inlet/Stephens Passage/Port Snettisham (Southeast) drift gillnet: keta 6.0 lbs
• Prince William Sound purse seine hatchery cost recovery fishery: pink 3.5 lbs.

Source: alaskaseafood.org

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