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Prince William Sound salmon harvest
Cumulative commercial harvest and the season scoreboard for the Prince William Sound area, from ADF&G's Blue Sheet
Data through Jul 16, 2026 · data pulled Jul 15, 2026, 7:00 PM PT
Cite
- Cumulative chum 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
- Prince William Sound
- Unit
- thousand fish
- Calculation
- Cumulative in-season
- Last observation
- Jul 16, 2026
- Update frequency
- Up to twice daily in season
Prince William Sound all species together are 1.30M fish, 5% of the 24.8M fish area forecast; its marquee pink run is pink not yet running (peaks late July-August); 723K fish chum so far. Percent of forecast is a pace read, not a good-or-bad call, and it climbs as each species opens and peaks.
Prince William Sound has taken 1.25 million fish cumulative, 5 percent of the 24.8 million fish forecast. Sockeye carry the early harvest at 531,000 fish, 42 percent of forecast, while chum stands at 703,000 fish, 15 percent of forecast. Pink and coho have not yet opened.
| Species | Harvest to date | Preseason forecast | % of forecast |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chinook | 3K fish | 3K fish | 100% |
| Sockeye | 558K fish | 1.25M fish | 45% |
| Coho | 2K fish | 322K fish | not yet running (peaks August-September) |
| Pink | 18K fish | 18.6M fish | not yet running (peaks late July-August) |
| Chum | 723K fish | 4.61M fish | 16% |
| All species | 1.30M fish | 24.8M fish | 5% |
| Species | Avg price | Avg weight | Exvessel value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chinook | $17.63/lb | 13.6 lb | $1.4M |
| Sockeye | $2.57/lb | 5.3 lb | $16.8M |
| Coho | $1.58/lb | 7.6 lb | $4.5M |
| Pink | $0.35/lb | 3.2 lb | $49.9M |
| Chum | $0.57/lb | 5.8 lb | $16.0M |
About Prince William Sound salmon harvest
A drift gillnet, set gillnet and seine fishery with a large hatchery pink and chum component, plus the early Copper River sockeye and Chinook openers. This page tracks Prince William Sound'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.