Author: Matthew Olson

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Published: 2023

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This is the 2022 edition of the annual management report describing commercial fishery management and results for salmon and herring in the Prince William Sound Management Area. This report also describes subsistence and personal use salmon fisheries. In 2022, approximately 33 million salmon were harvested in the Prince William Sound commercial salmon fishery including hatchery and miscellaneous harvest (homepack, confiscated, and donated fish): 14,000 Chinook Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, 1.70 million sockeye O. nerka, 104,000 coho O. kisutch, 28.44 million pink O. gorbuscha, and 3.1 million chum salmon O. keta. Additionally, 4.72 million salmon were sold for hatchery cost recovery. During 2022, 454 drift gillnet, 26 set gillnet, and 206 purse seine permit holders harvested salmon (Table 1). The estimated value, including hatchery sales, was approximately $99.37 million. Exvessel values were $29.64 million from drift gillnets, $2.15 million from set gillnets, and $43.64 million from purse seines. Revenue from hatchery cost recovery and raceway sales was $23.94 million. Approximately 3,380 subsistence and 9,270 personal use permits were issued, and there was a total combined harvest of 231,000 salmon. The commercial fishery for Pacific herring Clupea pallasii was closed in 2022 for the 22nd consecutive year because age structure and projected available surplus in the spawning biomass did not support a fishery.