date:Apr 15, 2014
ht in the highest chum salmon harvest in over 25 years. For three of the past four years, the value has topped $1 million.
At Kotzebue, 66 permit holders sold 2.5 million pounds of chum salmon, down 20%. A 15% drop in chum prices to $.27/lb likely caused less interest in the fishery. The dockside value of $689,163 was 16% above the historical average.
The $23.3 million value of the Chignik salmon fishery was worth $307,076 on average among the 77 permit holders. At the Alaska Peninsula/False P