Commercial Herring Fisheries
Southeast Alaska & Yakutat

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Fishery News Releases and Announcements

Sitka Sound Herring Fishery Announcement (PDF 101 kB) - 5/2/16
Sitka Sound Herring Fishery Update # 13 (PDF 260 kB) - 4/5/16
Ketchikan Herring Update 2016 # 14 (PDF 50 kB) - 4/1/16
Ketchikan Herring Update 2016 # 13 (PDF 49 kB) - 3/31/16
Ketchikan Herring Update 2016 # 12 (PDF 48 kB) - 3/30/16
Ketchikan Herring Update 2016 # 11 (PDF 48 kB) - 3/29/16
Sitka Sound Herring Fishery Announcement (PDF 174 kB) - 3/29/16
Ketchikan Herring Update 2016 # 10 (PDF 49 kB) - 3/28/16
Ketchikan Herring Update 2016 # 9 (PDF 41 kB) - 3/26/16
Sitka Sound Herring Fishery Update #12 (PDF 100 kB) - 3/26/16
Ketchikan Herring Update # 8 (PDF 38 kB) - 3/25/16
Sitka Sound Herring Fishery Update # 12 (PDF 84 kB) - 3/25/16
Sitka Sound Herring Fishery Update # 11 (PDF 101 kB) - 3/25/16
Ketchikan Herring Update 2016 # 7 (PDF 192 kB) - 3/24/16
Sitka Sound Herring Fishery Update # 10 (PDF 153 kB) - 3/24/16
Sitka Sound Herring Fishery Update # 9 (PDF 100 kB) - 3/24/16
Sitka Sound Herring Fishery Update # 8 (PDF 284 kB) - 3/23/16
Ketchikan Herring Update 2016 # 6 (PDF 41 kB) - 3/22/16
Sitka Sound Herring Fishery Update # 7 (PDF 150 kB) - 3/22/16
Ketchikan Herring Update 2016 # 5 (PDF 192 kB) - 3/21/16
Sitka Sound Herring Fishery Update # 6 (PDF 100 kB) - 3/21/16
Ketchikan Herring Update 2016 # 4 (PDF 192 kB) - 3/20/16
Sitka Sound Herring Fishery Update #5 (PDF 100 kB) - 3/20/16
Sitka Sound Herring Fishery Update # 4 (PDF 100 kB) - 3/19/16
Ketchikan Herring Update 2016 # 3 (PDF 192 kB) - 3/19/16
Ketchikan Herring Update 2016 # 2 (PDF 189 kB) - 3/18/16
Sitka Sound Herring Fishery Update # 2 (PDF 100 kB) - 3/18/16
Sitka Sound Herring Fishery Update # 1 (PDF 74 kB) - 3/17/16
Ketchikan Herring Update 2016 # 1 (PDF 33 kB) - 3/16/16
Sitka Sound Herring Fishery Announcement (PDF 100 kB) - 3/15/16
Sitka Sound Herring Fishery Update #1 (PDF 31 kB) - 3/11/16
2015/16 Craig/Klawock Herring Spawn-On-Kelp Pound Fishery (PDF 105 kB) - 3/2/16
Sitka Sound Herring Fishery Announcement (PDF 100 kB) - 2/29/16
2015/2016 Southeast Alaska Winter Food And Bait Herring Fishery (PDF 31 kB) - 2/26/16
2016 Southeast Alaska Eulachon Smelt Fishery Announcement (PDF 106 kB) - 2/25/16
Seymour Canal Herring Fishery Update (PDF 31 kB) - 1/22/16

Harvest

Sitka Seine Sac Roe

A summary of the Sitka Sound herring sac roe fishery, 1979–2015.

Year	Forecast Biomass (tons)	GHL (tons)	Sac Roe Harvest (tons)	Roe %	Nautical Miles Spawn	Spawning Biomass (tons)^a	Total Run (tons)	Exvessel $ Value (millions)^b
1979	20,300	2,000	2,559	9.3	41.0	23,144	25,703	$5.60
1980	39,500	4,000	4,445	10.8	63.0	41,120	45,565	$2.15
1981	27,000	3,000	3,506	11	60.0	42,846	46,352	$2.38
1982	30,000	3,000	4,363	11.7	40.8	28,635	32,998	$3.20
1983	32,850	5,500	5,416	11.1	68.0	33,865	39,281	$5.03
1984	30,550	5,000	5,830	11.1	65.0	40,712	46,542	$3.73
1985	38,500	7,700	7,475	11.3	60.5	33,262	40,737	$7.88
1986	30,950	5,029	5,443	11.9	51.6	27,198	32,641	$7.41
1987	24,750	3,600	4,216	9.9	86.0	45,508	49,724	$4.40
1988	46,050	9,200	9,390	9.5	104.0	55,071	64,461	$4.17
1989	58,500	11,700	11,831	9.4	65.5	33,251	45,082	$1.18
1990	27,200	4,150	3,804	10.6	39.1	23,349	27,153	$7.95
1991	22,750	3,200	1,838	8.9	44.5	31,061	32,899	$0.21
1992	23,450	3,356	5,368	9.4	72.5	46,350	51,718	$1.37
1993	48,500	9,700	10,186	10.7	55.3	25,911	36,097	$3.48
1994	28,450	4,432	4,758	11	58.1	17,819	22,577	$3.63
1995	19,700	2,609	2,908	11.8	37.3	28,572	31,480	$3.93
1996	42,265	8,144	8,144	9.6	45.6	31,517	39,661	$14.35
1997	54,500	10,900	11,147	11.5	41.0	36,441	47,588	$4.73
1998	39,200	6,900	6,638	10.2	64.5	43,576	50,214	$1.65
1999	43,600	8,476	9,217	10.7	59.5	49,762	58,979	$4.91
2000	33,365	5,120	4,630	9.9	54.5	53,501	58,131	$2.67
2001	52,985	10,597	11,974	11.3	61.0	53,407	65,381	$5.79
2002	55,209	11,042	9,788	10.9	42.6	57,078	66,866	$4.44
2003	39,378	6,969	7,051	10.7	47.1	71,996	79,047	$3.20
2004	53,088	10,618	10,490	10.8	79.8	88,437	98,927	$5.16
2005	55,962	11,192	11,366	11.5	39.5	84,399	95,765	$6.12
2006	52,059	10,412	9,967	10.5	57.4	77,767	87,734	$2.64
2007	59,519	11,904	11,571	11.4	50.2	80,847	92,418	$5.70
2008	87,715	14,723	14,386	11.5	55.3	90,171	104,557	$8.90
2009	72,521	14,504	14,776	11.8	65.6	103,348	118,124	$12.70
2010	91,467	18,293	17,874	12.5	87.7	96,900	114,774	$12.10
2011	97,449	19,490	19,429	13.3	78.3	87,954	107,383	$5.17
2012	144,143	28,829	13,231	11.8	55.9	64,229	77,460	$8.50
2013	76,988	11,549	5,688	13.0	61.3	68,947	74,635	$4.44
2014	81,663	16,333	16,957	12.4	50.0	53,491	70,448	$3.05
2015	44,237	8,712	8,756	11.9	87.9	55,804	64,560	$2.19
Avg. 79-15	49,360	8,970	8,546	11.0	59.4	51,985	60,531	$5.03
Avg. 06-15	80,776	15,475	13,264	12.0	65.0	77,946	91,209	$6.54
^a Spawning biomass estimates from 2015 ASA Model run. ^b Preliminary

Season	Hobart/Houghton		Kah Shakes/Cat I.		Seymour Canal			Other	Total
Season	Tons	Permits	Tons	Permits	GHL	Harvest in tons	Permits	Tons	Tons
1976	-	-	494	76	-	-	-	283	777
1977	-	-	776	106	-	-	-	211	987
1978	-	-	171	114	-	-	-	367	538
1979	-	-	524	90	-	-	-	-	524
1980	-	-	1,149	112	-	-	-	-	1,149
1981	-	-	1,871	111	600	615	98	-	2,486
1982	-	-	2,319	116	-	-	-	-	2,319
1983	-	-	3,113	122	-	-	-	33	3,146
1984	-	-	2,177	126	375	499	101	-	2,676
1985	-	-	2,159	120		-	-	-	2,159
1986	-	-	1,530	117	300	392	84	-	1,922
1987	-	-	1,452	117	400	302	88	-	1,754
1988	-	-	1,145	119	534	586	97	-	1,732
1989	-	-	595	85	332	541	103	-	1,136
1990	-	-	-	-	312	359	70	-	359
1991	-	-	660	84	-	-	-	-	660
1992	-	-	1,246	113	-	-	-	-	1,246
1993	-	-	737	102	-	-	-	-	737
1994	-	-	730	118	368	374	95	-	1,105
1995	-	-	610	112	316	319	88	-	929
1996	-	-	601	121	-	-	-	-	601
1997	442	87	1,159	112	-	-	-	28	1,629
1998	351	53	616	84	633	585	72	-	1,552
1999	506	89	-	-	595	706	86	-	1,213
2000	-	-	-	-	346	389	43	-	389
2001	-	-	-	-	474	620	54	-	620
2002	-	-	-	-	1,096	1,066	62	-	1,066
2003	-	-	-	-	1,712	1,519	76	-	1,519
2004	-	-	-	-	838	804	85	-	804
2005	204	48	-	-	894	945	61	-	1,150
2006	-	-	-	-	1,508	1,187	39	-	1,187
2007	-	-	-	-	1,292	1,219	44	-	1,219
2008	306	59	-	-	1,205	1,208	60	-	1,510
2009	341	62	-	-	1,471	866	73	-	1,208
2010	302	47	-	-	657	710	54	-	1,013
2011	-	-	-	-	835	^c	^c	^c	^c
2012	-	-	-	-	1,287	-	-	-	-
2013	-	-	-	-	1,014	235	51		235
2014	-	-	-	-	772	422	12		422
2015	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Avg. 1976–2015	350		1,174		596	625	80	-	1,296
Avg. 2006–2015	316		-	-	1,116	835	48	-	971
^c Confidential data.

Northern Spawn on Kelp

A historical summary of northern Southeast herring spawn-on-kelp fisheries and total regional harvests and values, 1990–2015.

Hoonah

Year	Hoonah Sound
Year	Herring GHL (tons)	SOK Harvest (tons)	Permit Holders Landing	Fishery Exvessel Value
1990	150	12	99	$201,348
1991	150	13.6	83	$193,715
1992	150	23.1	108	$453,152
1993	150	14.8	64	$542,080
1994	150	33.3	110	$1,683,396
1995	150	28.7	125	$1,175,460
1996	-	-	-	-
1997	1,421	64.3	125	$920,000
1998	700	85.6	115	$1,000,000
1999	778	93.8	86	$1,005,529
2000	359	36	84	$587,568
2001	366	66.2	87	$1,005,997
2002	1,264	136.6	98	$2,000,000
2003	427	141.6	108	$1,929,286
2004	1,207	236.1	107	$2,071,347
2005	728	181.7	94	$1,117,568
2006	669	162.1	79	$1,943,422
2007	681	159.4	91	$4,491,071
2008	2,238	228.1	101	$5,221,568
2009	2,238	234.7	101	$2,332,514
2010	3,182	290.4	101	$2,580,517
2011	3,015	193.7	89	$1,820,952
2012	2,139	186.5	73	$4,033,078
2013	130	-	-	-
2014	Below threshold
2015	Below threshold
Avg.^d	976	119.2	97	$1,741,344
^d Average includes only years when fishery was opened.

Tenakee Inlet

Year	Tenakee Inlet ^e
Year	Herring GHL (tons)	Herring GHL for SOK	SOK Harvest (tons)	Permit Holders Landing	Fishery Exvessel Value
1990	^e	^e	^e	^e	^e
1991	^e	^e	^e	^e	^e
1992	^e	^e	^e	^e	^e
1993	^e	^e	^e	^e	^e
1994	^e	^e	^e	^e	^e
1995	^e	^e	^e	^e	^e
1996	^e	^e	^e	^e	^e
1997	^e	^e	^e	^e	^e
1998	^e	^e	^e	^e	^e
1999	^e	^e	^e	^e	^e
2000	^e	^e	^e	^e	^e
2001	^e	^e	^e	^e	^e
2002	^e	^e	^e	^e	^e
2003	528	180	47.6	59	$580,500
2004	399	360	98.7	85	$981,464
2005	476	476	93.7	91	$512,900
2006	-	-	-	-	-
2007	-	-	-	-	-
2008	-	-	-	-	-
2009	875	621	64.1	83	$558,900
2010	583	<100	0	-	-
2011	-	-	-	-	-
2012	-	-	-	-	-
2013	-	-	-	-	-
2014	557	300-499	84.4	71	$1,155,275
2015	Below Threshold
Avg.^e	570	409	78	78	$757,808
^e Tenakee Inlet SOK fishery was established by the BOF in 2003. ^d Average includes only years when fishery was opened.

Southeast Alaska

Year	SE Region Total SOK
Year	SOK Harvest (tons)	Fishery Exvessel Value
1990	12	$201,348
1991	13.6	$193,715
1992	48.8	$633,152
1993	20.1	$589,962
1994	50.1	$2,047,595
1995	54.1	$2,175,460
1996	37.6	$1,490,000
1997	86.2	$1,190,306
1998	109.1	$1,152,203
1999	129.8	$1,217,650
2000	36	$587,568
2001	93.1	$1,152,856
2002	178.3	$2,218,700
2003	258.4	$2,932,786
2004	440.2	$3,748,355
2005	393.6	$2,234,191
2006	191.1	$2,241,997
2007	203.9	$5,578,603
2008	386.5	$8,490,751
2009	438.5	$4,280,698
2010	407.1	$3,465,232
2011	263.7	$2,478,958
2012	284.7	$6,155,333
2013
2014	84.4	$1,155,275
2015	Below Threshold
Avg.^d	176	$2,400,529
^d Average includes only years when fishery was opened.

Southern Spawn on Kelp

Craig-Klawock
Year	Herring GHL (tons)	Herring GHL for SOK	SOK Harvest (tons)	Permit Holders Landing	Fishery Exvessel Value
1992	2,684	403	25.7	227	$180,000
1993	1,602	240	5.3	21	$47,882
1994	895	135	16.8	84	$364,199
1995	725	109	25.4	146	$1,000,000
1996	658	100	37.6	154	$1,490,000
1997	715	200	21.9	143	$270,306
1998	755	500	23.5	148	$152,203
1999	750	650	36	103	$212,121
2000	626	280	0	0	0
2001	1,058	914	26.9	51	$146,859
2002	952	852	41.7	89	$218,700
2003	630	528	69.2	118	$423,000
2004	1,754	1,579	49.3	95	$325,000
2005	2,217	1,667	118.2	70	$603,723
2006	1,955	1,266	29	34	$298,575
2007	1,860	1,284	44.5	47	$1,087,532
2008	1,945	1,380	148.5	122	$3,066,788
2009	1,945	1,802	137.3	137	$1,256,777
2010	2,074	1,953	116.7	107	$884,715
2011	1,901	1,084	70	52	$728,147
2012	6,847	6,536	98.2	64	$2,099,002
2013	4,060	3,751	137.7	131	$3,099,002
2014	4,808	***	***	138	***
2015	2,263	1,299	***	133	***
Avg.^f	1,903	1,240	58.2	100.6	$854,978
^f Average includes only years when fishery was opened.

Ernest Sound ^g
Year	Herring GHL (tons)	Herring GHL for SOK	SOK Harvest (tons)	Permit Holders Landing	Fishery Exvessel Value
1992	^g	^g	^g	^g	^g
1993	^g	^g	^g	^g	^g
1994	^g	^g	^g	^g	^g
1995	^g	^g	^g	^g	^g
1996	^g	^g	^g	^g	^g
1997	^g	^g	^g	^g	^g
1998	^g	^g	^g	^g	^g
1999	^g	^g	^g	^g	^g
2000	^g	^g	^g	^g	^g
2001	^g	^g	^g	^g	^g
2002	^g	^g	^g	^g	^g
2003	^g	^g	^g	^g	^g
2004	875	831	56.1	64	$370,544
2005	-	-	-	-	-
2006	-	-	-	-	-
2007	-	-	-	-	-
2008	1,382	700	9.8	13	$202,395
2009	476	300	2.5	4	$24,423
2010	297	-	-	-	-
2011	613	100–299	0	0	0
2012	272	-	-	-	-
2013	341	100-299	64.6	81	$1,574,307
2014	1,073	700 +	^c	129	^c
2015	-	-	-	-	-
Avg.^f	666	610	27	49	$434,334
^c Confidential data. ^f Average includes only years when fishery was opened. ^g Ernest Sound SOK fishery was established by the BOF in 2003; fishery first took place in 2004.