The Alaska salmon season, by district, species and value.
How far the commercial harvest has come against the preseason forecast, area by area and species by species, pulled from ADF&G's Blue Sheet through the season. The sockeye scoreboard, the district leaders, and the value where ADF&G publishes it. One brief a week in season. No forecasts of our own, no fishing calls.
Data through Oct 19, 2026 · updated Oct 19, 2026
Latest issue · Oct 17, 2026
Southeast Alaska Sockeye Posts 21-Percent Gain in Late Season
Statewide harvest at 88.6 million fish, 74 percent of the ADF&G forecast. Southeast Alaska sockeye up 21 percent on the week to 525K fish. Bristol Bay sockeye at 92 percent of forecast.
Read the brief →Areas by percent of forecast, furthest along first
The season scoreboard →The data
Season scoreboard
The flagship: how far Alaska's commercial salmon harvest has come against the preseason forecast, ranked by fishing area. The percent of forecast is the share of the full-season projection landed so far, the cumulative Blue Sheet harvest over ADF&G's April forecast.
1 pageRun summary
Bristol Bay day by day: the cumulative commercial harvest by district, off ADF&G's Blue Sheet, with what each district added since the last report and when it was first published. Harvest only. Escapement and total-run counts stay with ADF&G's own Bristol Bay daily run summary, which this page links.
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Each ADF&G management area, Bristol Bay, Prince William Sound, Southeast and the rest, with its cumulative harvest by species, its forecast and its percent of forecast, plus the last published ex-vessel prices where ADF&G has them. Bristol Bay also carries the by-district drill-down.
8 pagesSpecies
Each species, sockeye, pink, chum, coho and Chinook, with the statewide cumulative harvest against the forecast, broken out by fishing area. Sockeye are the value engine of the season even when pinks drive the fish count.
5 pagesForecast
ADF&G's April Run Forecasts and Harvest Projections, by area and species, the benchmark the whole scoreboard measures the actual harvest against. Reported as ADF&G publishes it and never adjusted.
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