• This is the 11th year in a row that the total inshore sockeye run exceeded 50 million fish.
• The commercial harvest of 41.2 million sockeye was 18 percent above the preseason forecast.
• Sockeye remained on the small side this season, averaging 5.05 pounds. But that's a big improvement over last season's 4.53 pounds, the smallest average weight on record.
• The sockeye paid a preliminary average ex-vessel price of $1.03 a pound for a total sockeye fishery value of $214.3 million. The average price last year was 89 cents a pound.
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"Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of being which she tends. The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and sometimes equally convenient." Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species
Oh come on Deckboss keyboard captains: not one comment on how price of fish is lower with inflation or how the processors are screwing you and don't know how to cut fish, or how Area M is the antichrist? You guys must be out drinking that retro cash away.
Thank God for Troy and Rob. SBS saved the Bay. Dave Hambleton will bleed CanFisCo to death. Trident is passe. Fish price is commensurate with poor quality from the Bay. Glad Glaab is playing in SE. Blakey is relevant again - Greg would be proud.
Don't forget the SBS haters, who still would prefer the old $0.40 base price, and business would be still be good for Peter Pan and OBI, APA, Libby McNeil, Carlisle, and the rest of the sailboat processors. That 1951 Bristol Bay Management plan is over, the real problem relates to ADF&G, who still refuse to update their 1951 management plan. Maybe Dunleavy can give us a Government Shutdown for King Salmon and Dillingham, like Trumps going to give us on Wednesday. The Cold War is over, but don't tellem that in Bristol Bay.
Deckboss; Here's a tiny slice of history to chew on.
All quotes by Jefferson F. Moser, Commander U.S.N.; Steamer 'Albatross'. Alaska Salmon Investigations 1900 and 1901.
Bering Sea District : July 5 to July19. " Thirty redfish (Sockeye) taken in one haul of ship's seine averaged 8.25 pounds, and 30 redfish from the cannery bin averaged 7.5 pounds..."
" For redfish, the length varies...and the mesh from 6 1/8 to 6 1/4 inches stretched. For king salmon...the mesh 9 1/4 inches stretched."
Seattle Marine shows Bristol Bay web from 4 3/4 inch to 5 inch. Some 5.5 inch on ebay.
What does this decrease in size predict for the future...?? Who knows...??
Regards, Doug Hatfield
Let’s be serious, 8:00am. You have made some broad industry assertions that certainly need fact checking. First and foremost, Leauri runs canfisco – you should have no allusions that Dave is in charge of his own destiny or anything there.
Everything else is spot on.
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