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August 10, 2026

Southeast Alaska Pink Reaches 4.5 Million Fish

Statewide cumulative harvest reached 52.3 million fish, 44 percent of ADF&G's 119.9 million-fish commercial-comparable forecast, according to the Blue Sheet. Sockeye (reds), the value driver, stand at 36.2 million fish and 82 percent of their 44.1 million-fish forecast. Southeast Alaska pink (humpies) was the week's largest volume mover, climbing to 4.53 million fish from 616,000 fish the prior stat week.

Chart: scoreboard/statewide

  • Bristol Bay sockeye: 30.0 million fish, 92 percent of ADF&G's 32.9 million-fish forecast on the Blue Sheet.
  • Southeast Alaska pink: 4.53 million fish cumulative, up 634.7 percent week over week from 616,000 fish the prior stat week.
  • Kodiak: sockeye at 966,000 fish (up from 7,000 the prior stat week), pink at 652,000 fish (up from 9,000) and chum (dogs) at 164,000 fish (up from 66,000).
  • Chignik: 1.26 million fish, 77 percent of ADF&G's 1.64 million-fish forecast, with coho (silvers) at 21,000 fish from 3,000 fish the prior stat week.
  • AYK: 117,000 fish, 77 percent of its 151,000-fish ADF&G forecast.
  • Prince William Sound: 8 percent of forecast, the furthest behind of the districts reported in this digest.

The season is in its August phase, with sockeye tapering and pink and chum carrying the cumulative pace statewide. Enhanced pink harvests at Southeast Alaska and Kodiak are in peak range.

Blue Sheet figures are preliminary and subject to ADF&G 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.

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