Togiak Herring Forecasted to be Higher than Ten-Year Average
SEAFOODNEWS.COM By Peggy Parker - April 17, 2015
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game forecast a total return of 163,480 tons of herring this spring. That means up to 32,696 tons will be available for harvest in 2015. Biologists will fly over the inshore waters of Togiak Bay this weekend, looking for signs of the returning masses of herring.
Togiak herring, much larger than the herring landed in Sitka and Kodiak, will still face a tight market in Japan due to high inventories, declining consumption trrends, and the currency exchange rate.
Harvest allocation, in accordance with the management plan, will allocate 29,012 metric tons for the Togiak sac roe fishery, 20,309 for purse seiners, 8,704 metric tons for gillnetters, 2,184 metric tons for the Dutch Harbor Food and Bait fishery, and 1,500 tons for the spawn-on-kelp fishery. There is not expected to be a spawn-on-kelp fishery...
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