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Chignik salmon harvest
Cumulative commercial harvest and the season scoreboard for the Chignik area, from ADF&G's Blue Sheet
Data through Jul 16, 2026 · data pulled Jul 15, 2026, 7:00 PM PT
Cite
- Cumulative sockeye harvest
About this data
- Source
- ADF&G Preliminary Alaska Commercial Salmon Catch Report (Blue Sheet), over the April preseason forecast
- Series
- Cumulative commercial harvest by species and percent of forecast
- Basis
- Common-property and hatchery cost-recovery catch, preliminary
- Geography
- Chignik
- Unit
- thousand fish
- Calculation
- Cumulative in-season
- Last observation
- Jul 16, 2026
- Update frequency
- Up to twice daily in season
Chignik all species together are 466K fish, 28% of the 1.64M fish area forecast; its marquee sockeye run is 376K fish sockeye, 35% of forecast. Percent of forecast is a pace read, not a good-or-bad call, and it climbs as each species opens and peaks.
Chignik is 369K fish, 23 percent of forecast. Sockeye (reds) is 308K fish, 28 percent of forecast. Chum is running ahead at 40K fish and 54 percent of forecast. Pink is at 21K fish, 5 percent of forecast.
| Species | Harvest to date | Preseason forecast | % of forecast |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chinook | n/a | 4K fish | not yet running (peaks May-June) |
| Sockeye | 376K fish | 1.09M fish | 35% |
| Coho | n/a | 59K fish | not yet running (peaks August-September) |
| Pink | 28K fish | 415K fish | 7% |
| Chum | 62K fish | 74K fish | 84% |
| All species | 466K fish | 1.64M fish | 28% |
| Species | Avg price | Avg weight | Exvessel value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chinook | $1.35/lb | 7.1 lb | $28,242 |
| Sockeye | $1.55/lb | 5.7 lb | $7.3M |
| Coho | $0.90/lb | 6.7 lb | $308,809 |
| Pink | $0.35/lb | 3.2 lb | $2.2M |
| Chum | $0.45/lb | 6.3 lb | $244,714 |
About Chignik salmon harvest
A concentrated purse seine sockeye fishery on the Alaska Peninsula's south side, keyed to the early and late Chignik Lake sockeye runs. This page tracks Chignik's cumulative commercial salmon harvest from ADF&G's Blue Sheet, by species, against the area's preseason forecast. The numbers are common-property and cost-recovery catch in thousands of fish, preliminary and updated through the season; sport, subsistence and personal-use harvests are not included. Early low percentages are the run still building, not a weak year.