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Alaska Sport Fishing Survey

Boat - Whale Passage Estimates

(B) Prince of Wales Island sport fish harvest estimates for Boat – Whale Passage, 2013–2022.

SALMON SPECIES 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Sea-run Chinook salmon 11 36 133 171 75 143 19 8 115 28
Sea-run Coho salmon 4,095 8,688 6,080 1,067 2,195 2,284 3,405 460 2,599 348
Landlocked Coho/Chinook salmon 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sockeye salmon 71 0 0 0 0 0 15 0 0 0
Kokanee salmon 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pink salmon 421 83 198 228 1,912 545 329 411 1,518 1,764
Chum salmon 0 30 0 27 124 10 18 0 103 96
Salmon Total 4,598 8,837 6,411 1,493 4,306 2,982 3,786 879 4,335 2,236
OTHER SPECIES 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Steelhead trout 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Rainbow trout 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cutthroat trout 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Brook trout 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Lake trout 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dolly Varden/Arctic Char 0 0 0 12 0 49 0 0 0 0
Arctic grayling 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Northern pike 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Whitefish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Burbot 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Sheefish 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Smelt 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Pacific halibut 1,207 891 1,109 1,377 555 1,087 761 477 993 321
Rockfish 409 471 471 423 162 880 193 776 0 118
Lingcod 36 66 172 50 53 81 40 31 116 48
Pacific cod 91 250 34 291 12 264 265 155 328 0
Sablefish/black cod 0 58 0 103 41 202 599 82 382 172
Shark 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Other fish 0 0 0 67 0 0 0 72 18 318
Other Species Total 1,743 1,736 1,786 2,323 823 2,563 1,858 1,593 1,837 977
Grand Total 6,341 10,573 8,197 3,816 5,129 5,545 5,644 2,472 6,172 3,213