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Source line brokenKodiak salmon harvest
Cumulative commercial harvest and the season scoreboard for the Kodiak area, from ADF&G's Blue Sheet
Data through Sep 7, 2026 · source last checked Sep 6, 2026, 7:00 PM PT · page revised Sep 7, 2026
Cite
- Cumulative pink 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
- Kodiak
- Unit
- thousand fish
- Calculation
- Cumulative in-season
- Last observation
- Sep 7, 2026
- Update frequency
- Up to twice daily in season
Kodiak all species together are 14.8M fish, 98% of the 15.0M fish area forecast; its marquee pink run is 12.8M fish pink, 104% of forecast.
| Species | Harvest to date | Preseason forecast | % of forecast |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chinook | 1K fish | 7K fish | 14% |
| Sockeye | 1.55M fish | 2.06M fish | 75% |
| Coho | 170K fish | 164K fish | 104% |
| Pink | 12.8M fish | 12.3M fish | 104% |
| Chum | 242K fish | 494K fish | 49% |
| All species | 14.8M fish | 15.0M fish | 98% |
| Species | Avg price | Avg weight | Fish harvested | Total ex-vessel value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chinook | $0.10/lb | 5.3 lb | 1K fish | $741 |
| Sockeye | $1.34/lb | 4.8 lb | 1.50M fish | $9.5M |
| Coho | $0.70/lb | 7.1 lb | 314K fish | $1.6M |
| Pink | $0.30/lb | 3.2 lb | 34.6M fish | $32.2M |
| Chum | $0.39/lb | 6.5 lb | 739K fish | $1.9M |
About Kodiak salmon harvest
Purse seine, set and drift gillnet around the Kodiak archipelago, a pink and sockeye fishery with a hatchery component. This page tracks Kodiak'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. Percent of forecast is a share of the full-season projection, not a good-or-bad call, and it climbs as each species opens and peaks: early low percentages are the run still building, not a weak year. In the ex-vessel table, value is that species' whole-season total in dollars as ADF&G prints it, not a per-fish or per-pound figure, so a species with a few hundred fish shows a total of a few dollars. This page holds Kodiak's last trustworthy Blue Sheet reading, from Sep 7, 2026, because ADF&G's row for the area has reported an impossible drop in the season cumulative since then.
Kodiak is a seine and set gillnet fishery working the island's bays and the Alaska Peninsula shore across Shelikof Strait. Pink salmon dominate the catch by numbers, with sockeye from the Karluk and Ayakulik systems and a chum component alongside them, and the season runs from June into September.
The management problem that defines the area is mixed stocks. Fish bound for other regions, including Cook Inlet, pass through Kodiak waters, so an opening here can intercept a run that another area's fleet and escapement goals are counting on. ADF&G manages the area with that interception in mind, which means Kodiak openings can be constrained by conditions somewhere else entirely. It is also a fishery with a large local processing base on the island, so the catch tends to be handled close to where it is landed rather than tendered across the Gulf.