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Alaska salmon harvests statewide have now exceeded 97% of the pre-season forecast, after a large jump in the harvest total, fueled by what was likely the peak week for pink salmon harvest. As of Monday, Aug. 28, the preliminary commercial salmon total for the 2023 season stood at 200.7 million fish. That number includes 133.2 million pink, 49.6 million sockeyes, 16.6 million chums, 1.2 million coho and 185,000 kings, according to calculations of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Following weeks of trailing the 2022 (2021 for pinks) benchmark, the 2023 harvest volume is now similar to the comparison year in estimated total volume, according to Simon Marks, a research analyst with McKinley Research Group in Juneau, who’s producing weekly in-season commercial salmon harvest up...

Commercial salmon harvest in Alaska has reached an estimated total of over 60 million fish, up more than 24 million fish through Monday, July 17 from a week earlier, with increased harvests from Southwest to Southeast to the Central region, according to Alaska Department of Fish and Game data. ADF&G biologists reported a preliminary harvest through July 17 that included 39 million sockeyes, over 14 million pink salmon, 6.7 million chums, 124,000 Chinooks and over 14,000 pinks. In the central region alone, the preliminary count rose by over 20 million salmon, up from 31.6 million fish on July 11 to 52.6 million fish by July 17. In Bristol Bay, the Nushagak District led with a total of 11.4 million fish delivered to processors, up from 9.2 million fish. The Naknek-Kvichak Distr...

Commercial fisheries harvests are increasing from Bristol Bay to the westward region fisheries of the Alaska Peninsula and the Kodiak area, with over five million salmon already delivered to processors. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game put the preliminary harvest totals through Monday, June 26 at 2.8 million sockeye, more than two million chum, 182,000 pink and 29,000 Chinook salmon. The total preliminary catch for the central region, including Bristol Bay, Cook Inlet and Prince William Sound, stood at nearly 3.6 million fish. Prince William Sound had 2.7 million fish, including 1.8 million chum, 833,000 sockeye, 19,000 pink and 7,000 Chinook, mostly from the Copper River drift district. Bristol Bay, where commercial fishing officially opened on June 1, had some 819,000 ...