Bristol Bay Fleet Update
Dear Bristol Bay Fishermen,
Silver Bay Seafoods is pleased to announce the 2026 pre-season price of $1.60/lb for qualifying
(chilled, floated, bled) sockeye. This is $.30/lb more than last year's pre-season price and is considered a conservative starting price for the 2026 season.
Please hold the date for pre-season fishermen meetings. Silver Bay Seafoods Management, Board Members, and Fishermen Committee Members will be joining these meetings to talk about company business, market updates, and 2026 fleet operations and support.
Preseason meeting dates:
• Naknek: June 13
• Egegik: June 14
• Dillingham: June 19
Stay tuned for more preseason info. See you soon!
This is SBS, Branson and Cora at their best. The fleet deserves to know minimums. Cheers to them. It would be great if Hambleton was allowed the courage to do same for the rest of the Bay fleet.
ReplyDelete"You don't reward failure by promoting those responsible for it, because all you get is more failure." Donald J. Trump, The Art of the Deal
ReplyDeleteWe received 1.25 in 1978 almost fifty years ago
ReplyDeleteyou could buy sockey at the store for a little over
3.00 lb so that seems about right.
When will Bundrant post that penny a pound again? Those that laughed and said SBS would never work, then turn around and make the claim that Alaska's an "Owner State" when talking Permeant Fund check? You can only laugh at a State 49th in education out of 50, and who think the 49ers are a football team? Just like the 12th man in Seattle, who never got thru 12th grade. What ever happened to Bundrant's Commodities Market argument, that vanished when the pork bellie market in Indiana was taken over by China when they bought Smithfield Farms. The last of the Seattle Seven, still looking for a 12th grade school teacher, and looking to stay off the Endangered Species List.
ReplyDeleteWhat are you rambling about?
DeleteThe average ex-vessel price for sockeye last year was $1.03 per pound, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game's 2025 Bristol Bay salmon season summary.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.adfg.alaska.gov/static/applications/dcfnewsrelease/1738640423.pdf
So, when the peak of the season boats are delivering deckloaded gillnets full of unbled, uniced fish, what is the price?
ReplyDeleteGood point. Ask Dave Hambleton. They love poor quality fish.
ReplyDeleteThe State requires low quality, you must have forgot why that Territorial legislature passed the 32 foot limit, when they brought back engines 1951, after banning them and fish traps in 1921. We all love low quality fish, It's written into regulation. One would wonder why Japan left, and now buys Chilean Farmed Coho? You gotta go Wild, and prove you're an imbecile at every single BOF meeting since the last century.
DeleteAs someone that buys fish from Bristol Bay processors, I can unequivocally say Canfisco groups quality is far more consitent than SBS. Know multiple buyers that feel stuck and are upset at SBS quality.
DeleteSure the OBI plants will be soon to follow the SBS poor quality game plan shortly.
Consistenly see a few posters hating on Hambleton, kinda think you have a kink for him or something.
If that's even slightly true, 6:01am, then why is Hambleton always late, trying to match the price SBS pays its fleet? When Leader Creek started paying profit share, I laughed so hard I cried. How do you get profit share when Jimmy Pattison owns 100% of it? These imbeciles in the bay believe anything, like those Dividend Checks Jimmy pays out to his Church, just like Chuck Bundrant.
DeleteAll the videos you watch in the bay, they leave fish on deck will picking, why don't they go straight into cold water?
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