Alaska farms lots of salmon already For years, Alaska officials have been resistant to offshore aquaculture, fearing the negative impacts it could have on wild, commercial fisheries. However, the state does has 30 hatcheries operated mostly by private nonprofit (PNP) corporations made up of commercial salmon fishermen in southeast Alaska, Prince William Sound, Cook Inlet and Kodiak. The hatcheries are used primarily for pink and chum salmon, and do not grow fish to adulthood, but incubate fertilized eggs and release resulting juveniles back into the wild, which eventually are harvested by the state's commercial fishing fleet. In 2019, hatchery-produced salmon accounted for 25 percent of Alaska's total salmon harvest. Roughly 50 million hatchery salmon were caught and were worth an estimated $118 million (€99 million), or 18 percent of the state's total salmon harvest value.