# Pink Salmon Climb Across Kodiak and Southeast Alaska _Aug 8, 2026_ > Statewide harvest at 49.5M fish, 41 percent of ADF&G's April forecast. Sockeye reach 82 percent of their 44.1M-fish forecast statewide. Kodiak and Southeast pink volume builds fast as August enhanced harvests peak. _Numbers as of Aug 8, 2026, 9:00 AM PT pull._ Statewide commercial salmon harvest reached **49.5 million fish, 41 percent** of ADF&G's 119.9-million-fish April forecast, with sockeye (reds) now at **36.2 million fish, 82 percent** of their 44.1-million-fish forecast. Pink (humpy) salmon drove the week's biggest moves, with Kodiak pink climbing from 1,000 fish to 652,000 and Southeast Alaska pink from 273,000 to 2.52 million. All figures are from ADF&G's Blue Sheet, preliminary and subject to revision. [Chart: Statewide cumulative sockeye harvest, 2026 (thousands of fish)](https://therun.news/scoreboard/statewide) ([data](https://therun.news/scoreboard/statewide.md) — chart image: https://therun.news/charts/issues/salmon/2026-08-08/scoreboard/statewide.png) - **Bristol Bay sockeye**: 30.0M fish, 91 percent of the 32.9M fish forecast. The Bay leads all districts on pace. - **Kodiak pink**: 652,000 fish, up from 1,000 fish week over week. Kodiak sockeye also moved, from 6,000 to 966,000 fish. - **Southeast Alaska pink**: 2.52M fish, up from 273,000 fish the prior week. Enhanced-stock harvests in Southeast and Kodiak typically peak through August. - **Prince William Sound pink**: 522,000 fish, up from 99,000 fish the prior week. PWS overall sits at 8 percent of its forecast, the furthest behind of any district in the scoreboard. - **Chignik**: 1.22M fish cumulative, 74 percent of the 1.64M fish forecast. Coho (silvers) at Chignik added 18,000 fish, up from 2,000 fish the prior week. - **AYK**: 117,000 fish, 77 percent of the 151,000-fish forecast. August marks the seasonal transition for the fleet: sockeye volume winds down as pink and chum carry the statewide total forward, with Southeast and Kodiak enhanced harvests at or near their peak. --- Canonical URL: https://therun.news/issues/2026-08-08