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67% of forecastAlaska Peninsula salmon harvest
Cumulative commercial harvest and the season scoreboard for the Alaska Peninsula area, from ADF&G's Blue Sheet
Data through Sep 7, 2026 · source last checked Sep 6, 2026, 7:00 PM PT · page revised Sep 7, 2026
Cite
- Cumulative sockeye harvest
About this data
- Source
- ADF&G Preliminary Alaska Commercial Salmon Catch Report (Blue Sheet), over the April preseason forecast
- Series
- Cumulative commercial harvest by species and percent of forecast
- Basis
- Common-property and hatchery cost-recovery catch, preliminary
- Geography
- Alaska Peninsula
- Unit
- thousand fish
- Calculation
- Cumulative in-season
- Last observation
- Sep 7, 2026
- Update frequency
- Up to twice daily in season
Alaska Peninsula all species together are 7.60M fish, 67% of the 11.3M fish area forecast; its marquee pink run is 3.11M fish pink, 62% of forecast.
| Species | Harvest to date | Preseason forecast | % of forecast |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chinook | 4K fish | 14K fish | 29% |
| Sockeye | 3.75M fish | 4.75M fish | 79% |
| Coho | 76K fish | 191K fish | 40% |
| Pink | 3.11M fish | 5.06M fish | 62% |
| Chum | 659K fish | 1.26M fish | 52% |
| All species | 7.60M fish | 11.3M fish | 67% |
| Species | Avg price | Avg weight | Fish harvested | Total ex-vessel value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chinook | $0.21/lb | 7.2 lb | 19K fish | $28,045 |
| Sockeye | $1.29/lb | 5.2 lb | 2.91M fish | $19.5M |
| Coho | $0.46/lb | 6.1 lb | 253K fish | $702,552 |
| Pink | $0.25/lb | 3.0 lb | 16.8M fish | $12.6M |
| Chum | $0.35/lb | 5.5 lb | 1.31M fish | $2.5M |
Previous weeks
Week of Aug 29, 2026
Alaska Peninsula has taken 7.60 million fish, 67 percent of forecast. Sockeye leads the harvest at 3.75 million fish and 79 percent of forecast, while the marquee pink run has reached 3.11 million fish, 62 percent of forecast.
About Alaska Peninsula salmon harvest
The North and South Peninsula and Aleutian districts: purse seine and gillnet that intercept sockeye, pink and chum bound for systems all across western Alaska. This page tracks Alaska Peninsula's cumulative commercial salmon harvest from ADF&G's Blue Sheet, by species, against the area's preseason forecast. The numbers are common-property and cost-recovery catch in thousands of fish, preliminary and updated through the season; sport, subsistence and personal-use harvests are not included. Percent of forecast is a share of the full-season projection, not a good-or-bad call, and it climbs as each species opens and peaks: early low percentages are the run still building, not a weak year. In the ex-vessel table, value is that species' whole-season total in dollars as ADF&G prints it, not a per-fish or per-pound figure, so a species with a few hundred fish shows a total of a few dollars.
The Alaska Peninsula is reported as one area but fished as two. The North Peninsula, on the Bering Sea side, is a set and drift gillnet fishery working local sockeye and chum runs. The South Peninsula, on the Pacific side, is largely a purse seine fishery, and it is where the area's management controversy lives.
The South Peninsula June fishery takes place while sockeye bound for Bristol Bay and other western Alaska systems are migrating past, so a share of what it lands is not local fish. That interception is longstanding, explicitly managed, and repeatedly litigated in the Board of Fisheries process, and it is the reason a strong South Peninsula June can be read as bad news several hundred miles away. When reading this area's numbers, the June and the post-June portions of the season are answering different questions.