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

2024 Weekly Alaska Salmon Harvest Update #10

Harvest Through 8/24/2024 (Statistical Week 34)

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• As sockeye season comes to a close, only Bristol Bay, Prince William Sound, and Cook Inlet, surpassed their pre-season predictions. Cook Inlet and Prince William Sound were the only two regions to show year-over-year growth, in addition to exceeding harvest projections.

• While Bristol Bay has already surpassed the pre-season sockeye prediction by 19%, YTD harvest remains 23% behind 2023. Released this week, initial predictions for the 2025 season indicate an expected harvest of 32.4 million fish (a 2.8% gain if realized).

• Following a ruling from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals regarding the Southeast Chinook salmon troll fishery, an additional 1,000 Chinook were harvested in the region last week, bringing the 2024 YTD total to 67% of projected harvest.

• While this week’s salmon harvest was led primarily by Kodiak pink salmon, reduced pink salmon harvests statewide have drawn comparisons to the 2016 season in which a ‘fisheries disaster’ was declared in a number of regions. While regions like Kodiak and Chignik are both well above the harvest levels from 2016 (+111% and +540% respectively), other regions such as Prince William Sound (-33%) and the Alaska Peninsula (-45%) are both on pace to have similar harvests to 2016.

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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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