Overview of the 2011 Southeast Alaska and Yakutat Commercial, Personal Use, and Subsistence Salmon Fisheries.

摘要

Southeast Alaska and Yakutat commercial, personal use, and subsistence salmon fisheries are summarized for the 2011 season. Historic harvests are provided for comparison. Total commercial harvest in 2011 was 73.6 million salmon with an initially estimated exvessel record value of $200 million. Harvest by species in 2011 included 339,000 large Chinook (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha), 1.2 million sockeye (O. nerka), 2.3 million coho (O. kisutch), 59.1 million pink (O. gorbuscha), and 10.7 million chum salmon (O. keta). In the purse seine fishery 270 permit holders harvested 58.8 million salmon, including 55.2 million pink and 2.7 million chum salmon. In the drift gillnet fishery 443 permit holders harvested 5.2 million salmon, including: 2.8 million chum, 1.6 million pink, 518,000 sockeye, 238,000 coho, and 27,000 large Chinook salmon. In the troll fishery 749 power troll and 345 hand troll permit holders (1,094 total fishermen) harvested 242,000 Chinook, 1.3 million coho, and 703,000 chum salmon. In the set gillnet fishery 121 permit holders harvested 168,000 sockeye and 126,000 coho salmon. Hatchery organizations harvested a total of 5.1 million salmon for cost recovery, including 4.1 million chum salmon. In the 2011 personal use and subsistence fisheries, 3,308 household permits were issued in Southeast Alaska and Yakutat combined. Harvest reporting for 2011 is incomplete, and reported harvest for 2010 with 86% of permits returned is about 50,000 salmon.