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Latest numbers: July 24, 2020
ADF&G:
The total run is 55.9 million fish -- about half a million away from last year’s. A lull in returns today -- at 468,000 fish, the daily harvest bay-wide was about half what it was yesterday. Egegik brought in half of yesterday’s catch. Total harvest is at 37.7 million. Escapement across the bay was 134,300, and the total escapement is at 18.1 million. The total Naknek-Kvichak run is far and away the largest in the bay at 24.2 million fish.
Let’s get down and dirty with the numbers this evening.
Nushagak District
Fishers in the Nushagak District caught 48,000 fish yesterday. This brings total harvest in the Nushagak District to 8.8 million fish. That’s cumulatively attributed 4% to Igushik set-netters, 68% to the drift fleet, and 26% to Nushagak set-netters.
Across the Nushagak District, daily escapement yesterday was 25,500, which makes the total district-wide escapement for the season 3.7 million fish.
Breaking that escapement down by river …
Igushik River
In the Igushik River, a daily escapement of 5,700 fish yesterday makes total escapement up the Igushik 296,000 fish.
Nushagak River
The Nushagak River’s daily escapement was 3,200 yesterday, bringing cumulative escapement in the Nushagak river to 1.22 million.
Wood River
And in the Wood River, 16,500 fish escaped yesterday, which pushes Wood river escapement for the season to 2.23 million.
Altogether, the Nushagak District’s total run is 12.6 million fish--the third largest run in the bay.
Togiak
Togiak’s harvest is still confidential. As of the last public update, Togiak’s cumulative harvest is 161,000 fish.
Escapement up the Togiak River yesterday was 9,700 fish, bringing total escapement in the Togiak district to just over 101,000. We do not have an up-to-date total run number for the Togiak district because of the confidentiality of recent harvests.
Naknek-Kvichak
The Naknek-Kvichak District caught 101,000 fish yesterday, which brings cumulative harvest in the district to 13.8 million fish. That’s attributed 7% to Kvichak set-netters, 11% to Naknek set-netters, and 82% to the drift fleet.
Escapement across the Naknek-Kvichak District was 38,000 fish yesterday, making cumulative escapement district-wide 10.4 million fish. Let’s look by river:
Alagnak River
The Alagnak River had 33,500 fish escape yesterday, bringing cumulative escapement in the Alagnak to 2.3 million.
Kvichak River
4,400 fish escaped up the Kvichak River yesterday, putting total escapement in that river just barely over 4 million fish.
Naknek River
No escapement numbers from the Naknek River yesterday. Escapement up the Naknek is still 4.1 million fish.
The total Naknek-Kvichak run is far and away the largest in the bay at 24.2 million fish.
Egegik
A daily harvest of 247,000 fish in Egegik yesterday brings the cumulative harvest in the Egegik district so far this season to 12.6 million fish. Cumulative apportionment comes out to 86.6% to Egegik drifters and 13.4% to the set-netters.
A daily escapement of 9,800 fish in Egegik yesterday makes the total escapement up the Egegik river almost 2.4 million. Egegik’s run is the second largest in the bay at 14.9 million fish.
Ugashik
In the Ugashik District, fishers caught 72,000 fish yesterday. This brings total harvest in Ugashik to 2.3 million fish. Cumulative apportionment stands at 79% to the drift fleet and 21% to the set-netters.
51,000 fish escaped in Ugashik yesterday, pushing season escapement in Ugashik so far to 1.5 million fish. Ugashik’s total run is 3.8 million fish.
Chignik
Yesterday, 3,806 sockeye passed the Chignik weir, and 3,343 late run sockeye. Total sockeye run at the Chignik weir is 205,939, and 69,887 in the late run.
31 kings also passed the weir yesterday, bringing the total king run to 857, and 19 pinks passed the weir yesterday, making the total Chignik pink run 644.
Area M
The South Peninsula is closed to commercial fishing. Here are the harvest numbers from yesterday in all of Area M:
Fleet caught 98,000 sockeye in Area M yesterday, bringing the total harvest of sockeye in Area M to 1.95 million.
There were also daily harvests of 1,200 kings, 16,000 chums, 6,100 coho, and 204,000 pinks. Total pink harvest in Area M is 2.1 million.
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A note on numbers:
The ADF&G daily run summaries represent the previous day’s tallies. When we have more recent numbers, like morning updates from the towers, we will say so.
The Port Moller Test Fishery sends out numbers and analysis each evening, so the most recent test fishery information here is from the previous day’s fishing.