As Bristol Bay wrapped up its 2014 salmon season, with a
harvest just shy of 29 million sockeyes, other fisheries in Alaska were picking
up speed.
As of Aug. 6, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s
preliminary salmon harvest added up to 104,772,000 salmon, including 54,005,000
humpies, 40,751,000 reds, 8,025,000 chum, 1,590,000 silver, and 401,000
Chinooks.
State fisheries officials said that compared with the harvest
of 141,721,314 salmon harvested statewide through Aug. 2, 2013, including
93,605,809 humpies, 28,300,079 sockeye, 17,590,441 chum, 1,922,216 silver and
302,769 king.
The final statewide harvest for 2013 included 272,630,000
fish includes 219,160,000 pink, 29,257,000 sockeye, 18,578,000 chum, 5,353,000
coho and 281,000 Chinooks.
Prince William Sound harvesters through Aug. 6 had delivered
to processors an estimated 39,900,000 salmon, including 35,415,000 humpies,
3,297,000 reds, 1,156,000 chum, 23,000 silvers and 10,000 kings.
In Cook Inlet, the estimated harvest total was 3.4 million
fish, including 2.5 million sockeye, 709,000 pink, 160,000 chum, 96,000 silver
and 5,000 kings.
On the Lower Yukon River, small boat fishermen garnered a
harvest now totaling 537,000 fish, including 480,000 keta, 55,000 pink, and
2,000 cohos. Norton Sound fishermen’s harvest has reached 303,000 fish,
including 180,000 pink, 96,000 chum, and 27,000 silver salmon, and harvesters
in the Kotzebue area have to date delivered 355,000 chum to processors.
For Southeast Alaska, the harvest stands at more than 18
million fish, including nearly 12 million pink, some 4.3 million chum, more
than a million coho, 727,000 red and 357,000 kings.
On the Alaska Peninsula processors have received nearly 4.6
million fish, including more than 3 million reds, 672,000 pink, 567,000 chum, 281,000
silver and 8,000 Chinook salmon.
And Kodiak’s harvest to date is 7.7 million fish, with more
than 5 million pink, 2.3 million red, 279,000 chum, 89,000 silver and 6,000
king salmon.
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