After an influx of fish over the weekend, Togiak herring fishery opens to purse seiners
0:13 “We flew Friday and didn’t see anything, and then on Monday we saw close to 50,000 tons. So that’s a pretty quick scaling up, but it’s not unprecedented or anything,” he said. The total allowable harvest is 47,300 tons. The purse seine fleet is allocated 80% of that, and the gillnet fleet can harvest the remaining 20%. Dutch Harbor Food and Bait will receive 7% of the remaining allocation, and Togiak’s spawn on kelp fishery has a fixed allocation of 1,500 tons. The Togiak herring fishery is open to purse seine fishing until further notice. In Fish and Game’s announcement, i...
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