Bristol Bay Reds at 67 Percent of Forecast
Statewide cumulative salmon harvest stands at 32.3 million fish, 26 percent of ADF&G's 125.5 million fish preseason forecast, per the Blue Sheet. Sockeye (reds) account for 27.3 million of those fish, 55 percent of the 49.7 million fish sockeye forecast. Bristol Bay leads the district scoreboard at 67 percent of its 34.2 million fish forecast, with 22.9 million sockeye to date.
- Southeast chum (dogs): Cumulative 2.25 million fish, up from 1.03 million last week, the largest harvest move by volume on the Blue Sheet this week.
- Kodiak sockeye: Harvest fell from 339,000 fish to 5,000 fish week over week. Kodiak sits at 0 percent of its preseason forecast, furthest behind among reporting districts.
- Alaska Peninsula: 4.78 million fish, 42 percent of the 11.3 million fish preseason forecast.
- Chignik: 564,000 fish, 34 percent of the 1.64 million fish forecast. Chum reached 84,000 fish from 40,000 last week. Pink reached 42,000 from 21,000.
- Southeast coho (silvers) and pink (humpies): Coho at 22,000 fish cumulative, up from 4,000 last week. Southeast pink at 77,000 from 32,000. Prince William Sound pink at 44,000 from 9,000.
The season is in its peak July period for Bristol Bay sockeye, the value engine of the Alaska salmon season.
Blue Sheet figures are preliminary and subject to revision.
The Run reports public Alaska salmon data from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game: the in-season commercial harvest from the Blue Sheet, the April preseason run forecast, and the annual preliminary ex-vessel price and value tables, as ADF&G publishes them. Harvest is common-property and hatchery cost-recovery catch in thousands of fish, preliminary and subject to revision; sport, subsistence and personal-use harvests are not included, and confidential cells are suppressed at source. It is not fishing, financial or investment advice. Every figure is dated to what it reports and attributed to ADF&G we do not forecast runs or prices, and the percent-of-forecast read is descriptive.
