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Southeast Alaska salmon harvest
Cumulative commercial harvest and the season scoreboard for the Southeast Alaska 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
- Southeast Alaska
- Unit
- thousand fish
- Calculation
- Cumulative in-season
- Last observation
- Jul 16, 2026
- Update frequency
- Up to twice daily in season
Southeast Alaska all species together are 2.05M fish, 6% of the 31.8M fish area forecast; its marquee pink run is pink not yet running (peaks late July-August); 1.83M 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.
Southeast Alaska's cumulative harvest stands at 1.20 million fish, 4 percent of forecast. Chum lead at 1.03 million; Chinook stand at 26 percent of forecast. Pink, the area's marquee species, has not yet opened.
| Species | Harvest to date | Preseason forecast | % of forecast |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chinook | 47K fish | 162K fish | 29% |
| Sockeye | 131K fish | 948K fish | 14% |
| Coho | 12K fish | 1.53M fish | not yet running (peaks August-September) |
| Pink | 37K fish | 19.0M fish | not yet running (peaks late July-August) |
| Chum | 1.83M fish | 10.1M fish | 18% |
| All species | 2.05M fish | 31.8M fish | 6% |
| Species | Avg price | Avg weight | Exvessel value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chinook | $6.67/lb | 11.2 lb | $10.9M |
| Sockeye | $1.81/lb | 5.3 lb | $7.2M |
| Coho | $1.84/lb | 5.6 lb | $13.5M |
| Pink | $0.25/lb | 3.2 lb | $16.9M |
| Chum | $0.66/lb | 6.7 lb | $56.4M |
About Southeast Alaska salmon harvest
The panhandle: troll, drift and set gillnet and purse seine across the islands, plus a large enhanced pink and chum harvest and the Yakutat set gillnet fishery. This page tracks Southeast Alaska'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.