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Search Again| Division: | Commercial Fish |
| Title: | 2015 Kuskokwim area management report. |
| Author: | Poetter, A. D., A. Tiernan, and C. Lipka. |
| Year: | 2016 |
| Report ID: | Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Fishery Management Report No. 16-38, Anchorage. |
| Abstract: | This report summarizes the 2015 season and historical information regarding commercial salmon and herring fisheries, as well as subsistence salmon fisheries within the Kuskokwim Management Area (KMA). These fisheries mainly target 4 species of Pacific salmon (Chinook Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, sockeye O. nerka, coho O. kisutch, and chum O. keta). The KMA 2015 total commercial salmon harvest included 8,254 Chinook, 56,260 sockeye, 148,349 coho, and 21,068 chum salmon. Harvests of all species were below their recent 10-year averages. Within the subsistence fishery, amounts reasonably necessary for subsistence (ANS) have been consistently achieved through out the Kuskokwim Area, with the exception of Chinook salmon in recent years. There are 24 escapement goals for salmon within the KMA, 17 of which were met or exceeded in 2015. Historically, Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) have been harvested for commercial and subsistence purposes in the KMA. In recent years the market for commercial herring has declined and little to no harvest has occurred |
| Keywords: | Pacific salmon Oncorhynchus spp., Chinook Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, chum O. keta, sockeye O. nerka, coho O. kisutch, Pacific herring, Clupea pallasii, subsistence, subsistence fisheries, commercial fisheries, Annual Management Report (AMR), Kuskokwim River, Kuskokwim Bay. |