Download or read book Run Forecasts and Harvest Projections for 2020 Alaska Salmon Fisheries and Review of the 2019 Season written by Rich Brenner and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report contains a detailed review of Alaska’s 2019 commercial salmon season and harvest forecasts for 2020. The Alaska all-species salmon harvest for 2019 totaled 207.9 million, about 5.3 million fewer fish than the preseason forecast of 213.2 million. This combined harvest was composed of 287,000 Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, 55.5 million sockeye salmon O. nerka, 3.9 million coho salmon O. kisutch, 128.6 million pink salmon O. gorbuscha, and 19.6 million chum salmon O. keta. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is expecting a decrease in commercial salmon harvests in 2020. The 2020 total commercial salmon harvest (all species) projection of 132.7 million is expected to include 320,000 Chinook salmon, 48.1 million sockeye salmon, 4.2 million coho salmon, 60.6 million pink salmon, and 19.5 million chum salmon. Compared to 2019 commercial harvests, the projected 2020 commercial harvests are expected to be as follows: 68 million fewer pink salmon, 7.4 million fewer sockeye salmon, 300,000 more coho salmon, and 100,000 fewer chum salmon.