• 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.
If we're going to be serious, let us discuss Jimmy Pattison who actually owns Canfisco. Born October 1, 1928. That makes him 97 years old tomorrow, and Canada's 3rd richest individual. Destiny Unknown? Picked fruit and vegetables in High School, and now look at em, everybody picking sockeye for him in the Bay. Once he got the Royal Bank to loan him $40k, he didn't have to be the car way boy at the used car dealership any more. If you want to be serious, 25 years later he was selling more cars than anybody in Western Canada. Pattison's going to Heaven, and still gives away 10% of his income, giving $20million to Vancouver General Hospital in 1999, and $5 million to the Lions Gat Hospital, and in 2017 donated $75 million for the construction of the new St.Pauls Hospital in Vancouver, a Canadian record for private donation to health care provider. This guy might live to be 120. "We've got the base of our company - it's taken 57 years to build -where we can do semiserious things and give serious money away as timegoesby. The bigger we get the more weak,andthemorewecangive away. We're just getting into it" Jimmy Pattison, in a March 2018 interview, shortly after he gave $50 million, the largest private donation in Saskatchewan history, for a new Children's Hospital in Saskatoon. Ever see his boat, the Nova Spirit, from the guy that spells Destiny!
Dave is a cut above the sad processing management we have experienced. Think today’s Trident or yesteryears Ocean Beauty and Icicle. His biggest problem is figuring out how to compete with SBS using the less than competitive plants he has.
Thanks for chiming in, Dave. You are correct. The antiquated infrastructure is tough. I’m not sure what you do. But, good luck.
Icicle, OB, Peter Pan, all gone. They follow CWF, Pan Alaska, Sea Alaska, APA, Snopac, and others over the last 30 years. Trident appears destined to go as well. Only company left to act as a check on SBS is Canfisco. So far they are hanging in there and doing a good job. But, to match low cost SBS they will need to deploy capital.
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