Alaska Herring History
Alaska Herring History

Author: James Mackovjak

Publisher: University of Alaska Press

Published: 2022-07-18

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 1646423437

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Part I: Herring: The Fish and Its Utilization, 1878-1966 -- Alaska Herring: The Basics -- Early Development of Alaska's Herring Industry -- Salted Herring: The Early Years -- Early Alaska Herring Fishery Regulation and Research -- Alaska's Herring Industry Expands: 1924-1931 -- A Chronicle of Alaska's Herring Industry: 1932-1948 -- A Chronicle of Alaska's Herring Industry: 1949-1966 -- Bait Herring -- Part II: Roe Herring -- Alaska's Roe-Herring Fishery, Its Genesis and Management -- Sitka Sound Roe-Herring Fishery -- Resurrection Bay and Prince William Sound Roe-Herring Fisheries -- Lower Cook Inlet and Kodiak Area Roe-Herring Fisheries -- Togiak Roe-Herring Fishery -- Norton Sound Herring Fisheries -- Food Herring in the Modern Era -- Part III: Herring Spawn on Kelp -- Genesis of Alaska's Herring Spawn-on-Kelp Fishery -- Prince William Sound Herring Spawn-on-Kelp Fisheries, 1981-1993 -- Alaska Herring Spawn-on-Kelp Pound Fisheries -- Togiak and Norton Sound Herring Spawn-on-Kelp Fisheries.

Alaska Herring History
Alaska Herring History

Author: James Mackovjak

Publisher: University of Alaska Press

Published: 2022-07-18

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 1646423445

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Alaska Herring History is a thoroughly researched, well-documented, and comprehensive chronicle of Alaska’s herring fisheries. Author James Mackovjak describes the evolution of these fisheries from the late nineteenth century to the present, including harvest, processing, markets, and sustained-yield management considerations. The book is divided into three parts based on the purposes for which herring have been harvested. Part I is a history of the reduction (fertilizer/fish meal/fish oil) and cured (salted) herring industries and the bait-herring fisheries; part II is a history of the roe-herring fisheries in Southeast Alaska, Prince William Sound, Kodiak Island, lower Cook Inlet, Togiak, and Norton Sound; and part III is a history of the herring spawn-on-kelp industry. Historical and contemporary photos and illustrations—as well as graphs and charts that help summarize the development and, in some cases, the demise of the fisheries—augment this detailed look at the evolution of Alaska's herring fisheries. Balancing scientific details, historical facts, and personal anecdotes from experts in the field, Alaska Herring History will be of interest to historians, social scientists, biologists, and fishery managers and makes an important contribution to Alaska fisheries literature.

Southeast Alaska-Yakutat Management Area Herring Fisheries Management Report, 2017-2020
Southeast Alaska-Yakutat Management Area Herring Fisheries Management Report, 2017-2020

Author: Kyle Peter Hebert

Publisher:

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 37

ISBN-13:

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Pacific herring in Southeast Alaska and Yakutat are harvested for subsistence, personal use, and commercial purposes. Subsistence products include whole herring and spawn on branches or kelp; commercial fisheries occur for food/bait, sac roe, and spawn on kelp. At times, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game conducts test fisheries for research and cost recovery. Commercial fisheries account for most harvest, which peaked during the reduction fishery in 1929/30 with 78,749 tons. Large-scale reduction fisheries operated during 1890s-1967. A winter bait fishery has generally occurred every year since the turn of the century. The sac roe fishery became the dominant fishery beginning in 1971. A wild spawn-on-kelp fishery occurred between 1963 and 1969, with a closed pound fishery authorized by the Alaska Board of Fisheries beginning in 1990. The management strategy for herring combines a sliding scale harvest rate and minimum biomass threshold to determine allowable harvest levels. Harvest rates may be set between 10% and 20% of forecasted mature biomass when above threshold, except in Sitka Sound where harvest rates may be set between 12% and 20%.

2011 and 2012 Southeast Alaska Commercial Herring Fishery Annual Management Report
2011 and 2012 Southeast Alaska Commercial Herring Fishery Annual Management Report

Author: Wiliam M. Davidson

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13:

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The State of Alaska manages herring stocks throughout the Southeast Alaska region to provide for harvests in both subsistence and commercial fisheries. Fisheries are allowed when herring stocks have met threshold levels of abundance and in accordance with harvest rate policies adopted by the Alaska Board of Fisheries. Commercial herring fisheries include set gillnet and purse seine sac roe fisheries, spawn-on-kelp pound fisheries, winter food and bait fisheries, and fresh bait pound fisheries. Sac roe and spawn-on-kelp fisheries are regulated as limited entry fisheries. This report reviews management activities and actions taken to provide for these fisheries during the 2010/2011 and 2011/2012 winter food and bait and bait pound seasons and the spring 2011 and 2012 sac roe and spawn-on-kelp seasons. Prior to the 2009 season herring annual management report, management summaries were included in triennial reports to the Alaska Board of Fisheries which focused on herring stock assessments.