• The statewide commercial salmon harvest stands at just over 70 million fish. The preseason forecast called for a harvest of 135.6 million fish this year. That could be unattainable with the pink salmon harvest lagging badly, especially in Prince William Sound.
• It appears Southeast Alaska trollers might be denied a second summer opener and the chance to catch 15,000 highly valuable Chinook salmon. The Alaska Trollers Association is livid.
• Juneau-based Alaska Glacier Seafoods has acquired Triad Fisheries for an undisclosed price. Triad, based in Sitka the past 16 years, works with a group of independent hook-and-line, frozen-at-sea boats primarily fishing king and coho salmon in Southeast Alaska, with the catch marketed under the Bruce Gore brand.
• Saturday, Aug. 10, is Alaska Wild Salmon Day!
They need to put in total king count limits on the tourist anglers that give other users their share. If they do it right the charter fleet will be able to raise their prices and do less trips. The charter fleet should get their share of fish and operate under a cooperative to manage themselves to that number.
ReplyDeleteThe charter fleet should have to fish chums just like the trollers are having to do.
DeleteThe poor seasons in SE and pinks in general makes it interesting that companies paid actual money for plants in Ketchikan and Petersburg. Joe B. is proving to be quite wise and shrewd. OBI and their crackpot management just shutters plants (Larsen Bay, Alitak, etc.) and keeps the money losers never thinking to offload.
ReplyDeleteWhat will FY25 bring? Will OBI exist in its present form? Will NPSI exist?
Why sell the premier processing plant in Southeast, Ketchikan, and hold onto Wrangell? If you want out of the area, sell them both. Looks like the pinks and chums this year in SE may add up to enough for Ketchikan to make a little profit. But Wrangell, probably not.
ReplyDeleteMaybe best for Trident just to become a Bering Sea pollock processor, and maybe crab if it ever comes back. Whatever cod they can get as well. The whole salmon arena, and Gulf of Alaska in general, doesn't have many long-term processing winners. Does it have any? And Trident is unlikely to be one. Maybe wise and shrewd says throw in the towel.
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