The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is forecasting a harvest of 28 million pinks in the region next summer. This year’s catch wound up at 8.1 million pinks, roughly the same harvest as two years ago.
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In Southeast, this year’s salmon harvest fell by more than half
Adjusted for inflation, the initial salmon fishery value for 2020 is the lowest since 2006.
Petersburg to request salmon disaster declaration
A combination of low prices and low returns has the summer of 2020 shaping up to be one of the worst in decades.
Pink salmon could prosper in warmer Arctic, new study finds
A new study bolster reports by Alaska subsistence fishermen that the species’ numbers have been increasing as the Arctic warms at more than double the rate of the rest of the globe.
Southeast’s pink salmon catch could be lowest in 44 years
Fish and Game said 2020 is ‘definitely a historic, very poor pink salmon harvest.’
Record warm water likely gave Kuskokwim salmon heart attacks
Never-before-seen temperatures in the Kuskokwim River likely sent salmon into cardiac arrest. Salmon don’t function well past 70 degrees, and the water had pushed just above that limit.
Warmer waters believed to be main cause for dead pink salmon in Norton Sound
Norton Sound residents have reported salmon die-offs in unusually large numbers during the last week.
What happens when wild salmon interbreed with hatchery fish?
A research project by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game seeks to understand the genetic differences between wild and farmed pink salmon populations.
New warm ocean Blob could affect Southeast winter weather, fisheries
Sea surface temperatures in the Gulf of Alaska are averaging four degrees Fahrenheit warmer than normal. That isn’t as hot or doesn’t extend quite as deep as the original Blob. At least not yet.
ADF&G predicts weak pink salmon harvest in 2019
If the forecast is accurate, 2019 would be the lowest odd-year pink harvest since 1987. The Department of Fish and Game says the return of warm water temperatures to the North Pacific may have a negative impact on the future survival of pink salmon.