Annual Management Report of the 2019 Southeast Alaska Commercial Purse Seine and Drift Gillnet Fisheries PDF Download

Author: Troy Thynes
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Category : Fishery management
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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Book Description
A total of 33.5 million salmon were harvested in commercial salmon fisheries in the Southeast Alaska and Yakutat Region in 2019. The harvest by purse seine gear of 24.7 million fish included traditional fisheries (21.5 million), hatchery terminal areas (2.2 million), and Annette Island (1.0 million). Common property purse seine harvests of 23.7 million salmon were below the most recent average harvest of 38.6 million and ranked as the 33rd largest since statehood. The drift gillnet gear harvest of 4.2 million fish included traditional areas (2.6 million), hatchery terminal harvest areas (1.2 million), and Annette Island (0.4 million). Common property drift gillnet harvests of 3.8 million salmon were below the recent average harvest of 4.9 million and ranked as the 27th largest since statehood. Initial estimates for exvessel value are $55.6 million for common property purse seine fisheries and $18.8 million for common property drift gillnet fisheries.