Commercial harvesters of Bristol Bay red king crab have been given a quota of 6.6 million pounds for the fishery that opens at noon on Oct. 15 – down 22 percent from the 2016-2017 quota. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game also announced on Oct. 3 closures this season of the Pribilof district red […]
JUNEAU, Alaska — The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) announced that they have compiled the preliminary harvest and value figures for the 2017 Alaska commercial salmon fishery (PDF 130 kB). Although there are still fish being caught, the vast majority of the 2017 salmon fisheries has come to an end. The 2017 commercial salmon fishery […]
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is requesting that sport anglers and commercial fisherman report harvest of Atlantic salmon. On August 20, 2017, a net pen holding 300,000 Atlantic salmon failed at a fish farm near Cypress Island, Washington. It is estimated that thousands of Atlantic salmon escaped into the waters of Puget Sound. […]
Commercial harvests of wild Alaska salmon rose to nearly 133 million fish through August 8, including upwards of 50 million sockeyes, while a weak catch of humpies in Southeast Alaska left the pink salmon preliminary harvest at about 62 million fish. The commercial harvest of pink salmon in the Sitka area was in full swing, […]