Alaska Salmon
Cyber Salmon: Salmon in Alaska's Economy
Salmon in Alaska's Economy ... Some Alaskan salmon species range widely throughout the Pacific Ocean during their adulthoodat sea. While there, they're harvested by fishing fleets from all over the world. Commercialfishermen harvested over 5 billion pounds of fish and shellfish in 1995 valued at more than $1.26billion. This is more than the state government's entire annual operating budget. ... [Read More]
Alaska King Salmon Field Office Text Version
King Salmon, Alaska 99613 ... Crew sampling juvenile coho salmon on the Pacific coast of the AK peninsula. USFWS.Photo ... [Read More]
NEFSC Fish FAQ
Contrary to earlier beliefs, many salmon from North American rivers roam far at sea in the North Pacific Ocean and the Bering Sea. The oceanic distribution of the salmon is dependent upon the species and point of origin. Sockeye and chinook salmon from northwest Alaska, for example, may migrate across the Bering Sea to areas close to Kamchatka, U.S.S.R., and south of the Aleutian Islands into the North Pacific Ocean; the sockeye also migrate eastward to the Gulf of Alaska. Salmon such as the pink, chum, and coho from central and southeast Alaska, British Columbia, and Washington State, migrate out into the northeastern Pacific and Gulf of Alaska. Many steelhead trout from Washington and Oregon are known to migrate far at sea to areas off the Alaskan Peninsula. Some salmon migrate several thousand miles from the time they leave the rivers as juveniles until they return as adults. A chinook salmon tagged in the central Aleutian Islands and recovered a year later in the Salmon River, Ida ... [Read More]
TAA Begins
FSA received over 4,000 TAA applications last year from commercial Salmon permit holders and crew members. There is potential to receive almost 24,000 applications this year. ... [Read More]
Salmon Fisheries in Alaska
The salmon fisheries in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) off Alaska are managed under the Fishery Management Plan for the Salmon Fisheries in the EEZ off the Coast of Alaska (salmon FMP). The salmon FMP allows a commercial troll fishery in the EEZ off Southeast Alaska, and closes the remaining EEZ off Central and Western Alaska to commercial salmon fishing. Through the salmon FMP, the NPFMC and NMFS intend to conserve and manage the salmon resources in the North Pacific Ocean. All other salmon fishing occurs either in state waters or in one of three historical State-managed net fishing areas that extend into the EEZ. The salmon FMP does not cover the fisheries in these three State managed fishing areas; Cook Inlet, Prince Williams Sound, and Alaska Peninsula. ... [Read More]
Salmon: A Precious Resource!
Rich salmon resources are probably what allowed the first Athabaskan people to settle andsurvive in interior Alaska's extremely harsh climate. Native people in 1,500 households in over 60 communities along the Yukon River harvest over 408,000 salmon for subsistence use every year. Rural Alaskans eat an average of 230 pounds of fish per person per year. The chum salmon is locally known as dog salmon because of its importance as food fordog teams once critical for transportation in remote areas. ... [Read More]
Fish
Alaska's salmon are an amazing resource! Commercial and sport fishing for salmon add millionsof dollars to the state economy each year. These fish have also supported a traditional subsistenceculture for thousands of years. In addition, salmon that spawn, die, and decay enrich interiorAlaska's nutrient poor streams with nitrates and phosphates collected during their oceanexistence. ... Coho Salmon ... Chum Salmon ... [Read More]
Pacific Salmon in Alaska
P acific salmon (Salmonidae) have played a major role in the history and economy of Alaska and its commercial, sport, and subsistence fisheries; Alaska currently produces about 80% of all salmon harvested in the western United States and Canada. Before commercial exploitation in the late 1800's, salmon were a main food source for Alaska's Native peoples, who subsisted by using an estimated 12 million salmon annually ( Pennoyer 1988 ). By the end of the century, the total commercial harvest in Alaska had expanded to an estimated 56,000 salmon in 1878 but rose to more than 21 million by 1900 ( Rigby et al. 1991 ). Since 1980 the annual commercial harvest has exceeded 100 million salmon in all but one year and is presently at a record high of more than 190 million (Fig. 1). The annual sport harvest of salmon in Alaska has averaged about 1 million fish over the past several years ( Mills 1993 ), as has the subsistence harvest ( INPFC 1992 ). Science-based management, "limited-entry" fishin ... [Read More]
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