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29M Pink Salmon Harvest Forecast for SE Alaska

27Nov

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29M Pink Salmon Harvest Forecast for SE Alaska

State fisheries biologists have good news for pink salmon harvesters in Southeast Alaska: a 2025 harvest forecast of 29 million humpies, with an ex-vessel value of $14.5 million. The prediction, which comes in the wake of a 2024 fishery disaster, is considered an average run. The forecast was released Nov. 19, and is based on juvenile pink salmon abundance indices collected in northern Southeast Alaska inside waters. State biologists said the current forecast is slightly above the recent 10-year average harvest of 26 million for humpies, and about 60% of the parent year of 2023 harvest of 48 million fish. Last year’s harvest of 19.9 million pink salmon, with an average weight of 2.9 pounds, was lower than anticipated and by August, fishermen had netted only 35% of the forecast...

USDA Purchases Nearly $4.5 M in Canned Alaska Pink Salmon for Domestic Food Assistance

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has purchased $4,491,524 worth of canned Alaska pink salmon from OBI Seafoods, Silver Bay Seafoods LLC and Trident Seafoods Corp. for distribution to child nutrition and other related domestic food assistance programs for fiscal year 2023. The purchase, announced March 16, was the result of offers received in response to a March 2 USDA solicitation. Deliveries are to be made from April 16 through Aug. 30. Purchases from OBI at Kodiak totaling $758,692, are destined for food assistance programs in Louisiana, New York and Texas. Purchases from Silver Bay Seafoods in Sitka, totaling $3,548,911, are to be delivered in California, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Missouri, New York and Texas. Purchases from Trident Seafoods’ Cordova plant, totaling $183,9...

Alaska Canned Pink Salmon Heading to Ukraine

More aid to help feed people with insufficient access to food in the war-torn Ukraine is on its way, thanks to a $300,000 donation by the Alaska Legislature, led by Sen. Gary Stevens, R- Kodiak. Some 3,200 cases of canned Alaska pink salmon were to be loaded onto a container ship in Seattle on Monday, Aug. 8, headed to chefs with the World Central Kitchen in the Ukraine, according to Bruce Schactler, food aid program and development director for the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute. The fish will provide some 400,000 meals for Ukrainians, Schactler said. The World Central Kitchen (WCK) was founded by celebrity chef Jose Andres in 2010 after a devastating earthquake in Haiti. Together with its partners, WCK has to date has served well over a million meals to Ukrainians living in ...