North Alaska Peninsula Commercial Salmon Annual Management Report, 2020 PDF Download

Author: Reid H. Johnson
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Category : Escapement (Fisheries)
Languages : en
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This report is a summary of the 2020 season and historical data concerning management of the commercial salmon fisheries of the Northwestern and Northern districts of the North Alaska Peninsula in the Alaska Peninsula Management Area (Area M). Most commercial salmon fishing effort on the North Alaska Peninsula targeted sockeye salmon Oncorhynchus nerka. The 2020 commercial salmon harvest on the North Alaska Peninsula was 1,223 Chinook O. tshawytscha, 1,780,175 sockeye, 48,176 coho O. kisutch, 30,481 pink O. gorbuscha, and 56,152 chum O. keta salmon. The North Peninsula Chinook Salmon harvest was below the 10-year average (2010–2019) of 2,090 fish. The sockeye salmon harvest in the Northern District of 1,763,545 fish was below the 10-year average harvest of 2,146,231 fish. The North Alaska Peninsula chum salmon harvest of 56,152 fish was below the 10-year average of 184,696 chum salmon, with nearly all (43,128 fish) of the harvest occurring in the Izembek–Moffet Bay Section of the Northwestern District. The total exvessel value of all North Peninsula fisheries is estimated to be $9.0 million. The exvessel value was well below the recent 10-year average of $12.7 million. The majority of the North Peninsula fisheries’ value is composed of sockeye salmon harvested in the Northern District ($8.6 million). Total sockeye salmon escapement for North Alaska Peninsula streams was 1,079,928 fish, below the 10-year average of 1,234,481 fish. Approximately 73% of the sockeye salmon escapement occurred in the Northern District’s 4 systems in which sockeye salmon escapements are enumerated with weirs (Nelson, Bear, Sandy, and Ilnik Rivers).