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Alaska pink salmon harvest
Statewide cumulative pink (humpies) harvest and the by-area scoreboard, 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
- Statewide cumulative harvest by area
- Basis
- Common-property and hatchery cost-recovery catch, preliminary
- Geography
- Statewide, by area
- Unit
- thousand fish
- Calculation
- Cumulative in-season
- Last observation
- Sep 7, 2026
- Update frequency
- Up to twice daily in season
Statewide pink (humpies) harvest is 37.9M fish, 68% of the 56.0M fish preseason forecast. The by-area table shows where the pink are coming from.
| Area | Harvest to date | Preseason forecast | % of forecast |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southeast Alaska | 17.6M fish | 19.0M fish | 93% |
| Kodiak | 12.8M fish | 12.3M fish | 104% |
| Prince William Sound | 3.80M fish | 18.6M fish | 20% |
| Alaska Peninsula | 3.11M fish | 5.06M fish | 62% |
| Chignik | 502K fish | 415K fish | 121% |
| Cook Inlet | 38K fish | 381K fish | 10% |
| Bristol Bay | 30K fish | 256K fish | 12% |
| Arctic-Yukon-Kuskokwim | 7K fish | 15K fish | 47% |
| Area | Avg price |
|---|---|
| Bristol Bay | $0.05/lb |
| Prince William Sound | $0.35/lb |
| Cook Inlet | $0.26/lb |
| Southeast Alaska | $0.25/lb |
| Kodiak | $0.30/lb |
| Chignik | $0.35/lb |
| Alaska Peninsula | $0.25/lb |
| Statewide | $0.30/lb |
About Alaska pink salmon harvest
This page tracks Alaska's statewide commercial pink salmon harvest, known in the fleet as humpies, from ADF&G's Blue Sheet, against the preseason forecast, with the harvest broken out by fishing area. Figures 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. ADF&G's own statewide roll-up still adds Kodiak from the same Blue Sheet row this site holds back, so the statewide figures here understate the season by that shortfall.
Where pink salmon are caught
Pink salmon, called humpies for the pronounced hump spawning males develop, are the smallest-bodied and most numerous salmon Alaska harvests, with statewide catches regularly topping 100 million fish. Southeast Alaska, Prince William Sound, Kodiak and the Alaska Peninsula are the major pink-producing areas, and Prince William Sound's fishery in particular carries a large hatchery-origin component built specifically around pink and chum production.
Season and market
Pink runs peak later in the summer than sockeye, typically late July into August, and follow a genetics-driven two-year cycle: odd-year and even-year returns to the same river system are separate populations that can differ enormously in size, which is part of why pink forecasts are notoriously hard to pin down season to season. Pink salmon carries the lowest ex-vessel price per pound of the five species most seasons, but the sheer volume of fish makes it the backbone catch, the "bread and butter" fishery, for many coastal Alaska communities even when the per-pound price is thin. Historically most of the pack was canned; frozen production has grown steadily since the early 2000s, and pink roe is its own smaller but real market. Statewide pink harvests can exceed the combined harvest of the other four species in a big year, which is one reason the season's overall percent-of-forecast figure often tracks pink's own progress as much as any other single species.