The Alaska salmon season, by district, species and value.
How far the commercial harvest has come against the preseason forecast, area by area and species by species, pulled from ADF&G's Blue Sheet through the season. The sockeye scoreboard, the district leaders, and the value where ADF&G publishes it. One brief a week in season. No forecasts of our own, no fishing calls.
Data through Nov 4, 2026 · updated Nov 5, 2026
Latest issue · Nov 3, 2026
Southeast Leads Season's Final Week, Statewide at 74 Percent
The 2026 Alaska salmon season has closed at 89.1M fish, 74 percent of ADF&G's forecast. Southeast was the only region to record movement in the final week. Cook Inlet finished at 106 percent of forecast.
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Preseason. Once ADF&G's Blue Sheet starts reporting the season's commercial harvest, each fishing area ranks here by its percent of the April forecast.
The data
Season scoreboard
The flagship: how far Alaska's commercial salmon harvest has come against the preseason forecast, ranked by fishing area. The percent of forecast is the share of the full-season projection landed so far, the cumulative Blue Sheet harvest over ADF&G's April forecast.
1 pageRun summary
Bristol Bay day by day: the cumulative commercial harvest by district, off ADF&G's Blue Sheet, with what each district added since the last report and when it was first published. Harvest only. Escapement and total-run counts stay with ADF&G's own Bristol Bay daily run summary, which this page links.
1 pageAreas
Each ADF&G management area, Bristol Bay, Prince William Sound, Southeast and the rest, with its cumulative harvest by species, its forecast and its percent of forecast, plus the last published ex-vessel prices where ADF&G has them. Bristol Bay also carries the by-district drill-down.
8 pagesSpecies
Alaska has five commercial salmon species: sockeye (red), pink (humpy), chum (dog or keta), coho (silver) and Chinook (king). Each page below has the statewide harvest against ADF&G's preseason forecast, by fishing area.
5 pagesForecast
ADF&G's April Run Forecasts and Harvest Projections, by area and species, the benchmark the whole scoreboard measures the actual harvest against. Reported as ADF&G publishes it and never adjusted.
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