Gillnetters caught another 219,000 red, or sockeye, salmon at the Copper River on Monday.
That brings the cumulative harvest for the season's first two openers to an estimated 374,000 reds, nearly triple the anticipated catch.
More details here from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
And our neighborhood friend Trident Seafoods is paying out a whopping $1.30 per pound for reds. Woot Woot.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to take this moment to thank them for always being a leader in getting those prices fixed as fast as humanly possible.
Why don't you start your own processing company and become a price leader.
ReplyDeleteBrought to you by the humble processors ass(oc.).
ReplyDeleteI could go the silver bay route but then everyone would hate me for forming a processor... explain that one.
ReplyDeleteSalmon fisherman do the most sniveling about prices, than any other.
ReplyDeleteYes, there is a monopoly, but everyone that starts the independent processor goes broke,quickly...
Dry your eyes, and catch lot's of them.
The Silver Welfare Route...brought to you by another subsidy from the same old story Ted Stevens...For Sale by Owner...the Tennessee Pig Farmer found another best friend...go Magnusen Act...etc...Steven's anulling the the Magnusens 200 mile limit with a polack and a crabber nested, vested, but never arrested...It's
ReplyDeleteBarnacle Billikan the Sailor!
Hey Barnacle Bill, perhaps you should lay off the rum!
ReplyDeleteWOW... you sure aren't going to be invited to the Suncadia Annual Fall Classic Golf and Gloat Processor's Price Setting Retreat.
ReplyDeleteWhat they have is called an oligopoly, not a monopoly. Market control exerted by a few companies, not just one, foreigners no less.
Can't blame you for the anger though. When our own government won't protect us from shore based foreign owned processors, allowing cheap foreign laborers, and THEN barring foreign floating processors to come in, which would allow "free trade" competetive markets... a revolution does seem inevitable. The old "we're going to keep stealing from you 'cause you're not smart enough or strong enough to do anything about it" eventually causes backlash. This country was founded on it.
Tom Pollllock???
ReplyDeleteQuite some time ago, for Bristol Bay fishers to commiserate together during the depth of our salmon depression, we had www.salmonnorthwest.com. Anonymous posts were allowed and soon those who had no respect for others took over. Good people quit posting good ideas and the site died.
ReplyDeleteI'm sad to see such behavior allowed here.
Dave Hansen
F/V Eskimo Viking
And where did that High Sea's Driftnet Fleet, sail from Dave?
ReplyDeleteWashington D.C., and what is a salmon depression?
http://www.marad.dot.gov/documents/FCN_japan.pdf
"and soon reef netters who had no respect took over."
ReplyDeleteJudge Boldt, go Eskimo Viking!
55. The present reef net operators occupy fixed positions at the reef net grounds in Legoe Bay and maintain a "gentlemen's agreement" among themselves. The agreement is to the effect that an occupant of a location is entitled to maintain that location to the exclusion of all others. It further provides that no location will be yielded unless to one who agrees to purchase the equipment from the occupant. If the occupant does not desire to sell his equipment no change in occupancy of the location can occur. [Tr. 3681, l. 1 to 3682, l. 4; Tr. 3704, l. 4 to 3705, l. 10; Tr. 3717, l. 13-22] Reef netters do not voluntarily give up their locations or rotate to any other location. [Tr. 3771, l. 19-22] Members of the Reefnetters' Association do not recognize Lummi Indians as having any treaty right to occupy a position on the reef net grounds, and these Indians are, as far as these reef-netters are concerned, in no different position than a non-Indian who would seek to acquire a location. [**116] [Tr. 3717, l. 23 to 3719, l. 20]
Does anyone notice the low numbers of Chinook being caught? Even with the inside waters not being fished the numbers are very low. Where are they? Are they being caught and under reported, home packed and not reported, or are they just not there? Chinooks are way down in SE, now PWS, and not expected in the Susitna drainages. Should be a major cause for concern for the Dept. Tick Tock!
ReplyDeletewell I don't know about the rest of this blabber but regarding the price. Ocean beauty payed $1.65 and inlet seafood $1.75 it seems there is some competition. Stop delivering to trident. problem solved.
ReplyDeleteAs for kings catch being down you must take in to account that even with a inside closure fishermen have to target kings to do well on them. With a large red run like this less fishermen have been fishing in the shallows for kings as there is more money to be made on sockeyes.
I don't know about state wide populations being down the trollers seemed to do fine this winter.
Hmmmm....The Disappearing King Salmon Issue.....I'll tell ya.....It's been the South Alaskan Peninsula and C.Gulf Drag fleets!....Trident has had the Aleut A$$ bent bent over, out in Sand Point, for Decades. Those boats have NOT been Accurately reporting bycatches for years! During there Pollock and Cod seasons towing on the Shumagin Gap and CGOA/WGOA boundary Lines. Trawl fleet on the South Side, needs to go bye bye! Only then, will you see the King numbers start to rebuild. Same with Kodiak Kings. Heck those fleets are probably getting winter cycle Kings as far south as the Klamath River! Too much Federal protection toward the trawl fleets, as usual, in D.C. and not enough federal funding given for ample studies to determine threatened species. Same old good ole boy B.S.!!! Can't fish clean? Beach it!
ReplyDeleteAlso, Gotta LOVE THAT BY-CATCH Number of the Bering SEA Trawl Fleets TOO! Salmon numbers are way up! WTF? OVER!?!
ReplyDeleteThe third Opener was 253,000 reds , which is amazing since the Russian Fleet had a Holy Day and did not fish. This may very well be an all time recored run for the Copper, which can be attributed to great management, before the inside was closed.
ReplyDeleteThe escapement goals are being exceeded currently, and are being closely monitored.
I'd doubt management had much to do with it, or have you not met management?
ReplyDeleteClosely Monitored? Is that like James Brady, who fucked up Coghill Lake, and the Kvichack on the same 4th of July weekend?
It's a holy day, alright, where closely monitored also related to another drunk, headed to Anchorage to have another meeting with more drunks at ADF&G.
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anon @6.08 am.WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?
ReplyDeleteWhat elses would you attribute such a successfull return?Or do You just need something to whine about?James Brady@Coghill Lake was 30 yrs ago, get over it! This is supposed to be the best Coghill Run since then. Do you not think the run is closely monitored enough, or do you want to give the PU grooups some ammo