• The sockeye harvest was very large at nearly 40.6 million fish. But fishery value tallied only $116.8 million ex-vessel, roughly 37 percent below the 20-year average.
• The major buyers paid an average base price of 52 cents a pound.
• Average sockeye weight was 5.5 pounds, slightly larger than recent years due to the prevalence of fish with three years of ocean growth.
• The Naknek-Kvichak was tops among fishing districts with a harvest of about 13.2 million sockeye, edging out Egegik with 12.7 million.
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With that new record of No. 3 Bay product produced in 2022, and the millions of pounds of it still sitting unsold in many West Coast cold storages, maybe we can figure out why Russia sold Alaska in a Government Surplus Sale for $7.2 million in gold in 1867.
The brain trust in this fishery has never changed, operating under a management plan designed in 1951, for an almost extinct can line.
No. 3 product, always confuses those who never finished school, still trying to figure out what a "Marketplace of Ideas" actually means in Alaska.
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