2021 Prince William Sound Area Finfish Management Report
Author: Heather L. Scannell
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Published: 2023
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the 2021 edition of the management report describing commercial fishery management and results that is produced each year for salmon and herring in the Prince William Sound Management Area. This report also describes subsistence and personal use salmon fisheries. In 2021, approximately 63 million salmon were harvested in the Prince William Sound commercial salmon fishery: 9,000 Chinook Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, 1.09 million sockeye O. nerka, 256,600 coho O. kisutch, 59.57 million pink O. gorbuscha, and 2.07 million chum salmon O. keta. An additional 7.72 million salmon were sold for hatchery cost recovery. During 2021, 477 drift gillnet, 24 set gillnet, and 212 purse seine permit holders harvested salmon. The estimated value, including hatchery sales, was approximately $120.66 million. Exvessel values were $25.84 million from drift gillnets, $967,000 from set gillnets, and $71.22 million from purse seines. Revenue from hatchery cost recovery and raceway sales was $22.63 million. Approximately 2,835 subsistence and 7,222 personal use permits were issued, and there was a total combined harvest of 210,000 salmon. The commercial fishery for Pacific herring Clupea pallasii was closed in 2021 for the 21st consecutive year because age structure and projected available surplus in the spawning biomass did not support a fishery.