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Cook Inlet salmon harvest
Cumulative commercial harvest and the season scoreboard for the Cook Inlet 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
- Cook Inlet
- Unit
- thousand fish
- Calculation
- Cumulative in-season
- Last observation
- Jul 16, 2026
- Update frequency
- Up to twice daily in season
Cook Inlet all species together are 41K fish, 4% of the 1.06M fish area forecast; its marquee sockeye run is 36K fish sockeye, 8% of forecast. Percent of forecast is a pace read, not a good-or-bad call, and it climbs as each species opens and peaks.
Cook Inlet sockeye have reached 36,000 fish, 8 percent of forecast, with the run building through July as coho and pink remain closed. The cumulative harvest across all species stands at 41,000 fish, 4 percent of the 1.06 million-fish forecast.
| Species | Harvest to date | Preseason forecast | % of forecast |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sockeye | 36K fish | 469K fish | 8% |
| Coho | n/a | 94K fish | not yet running (peaks August-September) |
| Pink | n/a | 381K fish | not yet running (peaks late July-August) |
| Chum | 5K fish | 113K fish | 4% |
| All species | 41K fish | 1.06M fish | 4% |
| Species | Avg price | Avg weight | Exvessel value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chinook | $3.46/lb | 9.6 lb | $11,025 |
| Sockeye | $1.77/lb | 5.4 lb | $40.2M |
| Coho | $0.61/lb | 5.1 lb | $355,584 |
| Pink | $0.26/lb | 3.1 lb | $458,570 |
| Chum | $0.41/lb | 6.4 lb | $352,464 |
About Cook Inlet salmon harvest
Upper and Lower Cook Inlet drift and set gillnet, a sockeye fishery close to Anchorage that shares its runs with a large sport and personal-use dipnet fishery. This page tracks Cook Inlet'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.