Sixteen vessels caught an estimated total of 20,374 tons of fish in Togiak’s 2015 purse seine sac roe herring fishery, a catch valued at just more than $1 million, at $50 a ton, Alaska Department of Fish and Game officials said June 2. The final harvest of 19,874 tons of herring coupled with an estimated […]
Alaska State Troopers report that the remains of a 14-year-old Togiak boy was recovered from the Nasaurluq Creek in Togiak early this morning. According to the Trooper Dispatch, at about 3:30 am, 14-year-old Reuben D. Pauk was “huffing gas on the creek bank with several other juvenile males” from the village, when he fell in […]
Purse seine herring harvesters in Togiak in Southwest Alaska netted more than 18,017 tons of fish through May 10, in a fishery including six gillnetters and 16 purse seiners, said biologists with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Since only two companies were purchasing gillnet fish, the gillnet harvest is confidential, biologists said. The […]
Alaska fishery area management biologists in Dillingham say the 2015 Togiak District herring biomass is forecast to be 163,480 tons, about 110 percent of the recent 10-year average. The forecast issued in late February is based on an age-structured analysis model in use since 1993. It shows so far that herring ages 4-6 are expected […]