Fresh Copper River coho salmon were selling well at New Sagaya seafood markets in Anchorage this past week, a steal at $9.99 a pound for a whole fish.
Costco warehouse seafood coolers at two Anchorage shops, meanwhile, had fresh fillets of Alaska-caught cohos for $11.99 a pound, back up from $7.99 a pound for coho fillets several days earlier.
At Pike Place Fish Market in Seattle, whole five-pound coho salmon were selling for $84.99 and coho fillets for $24.99 a pound. Online Anchorage seafood purveyor FishEx still had Coho salmon portions at $19.95 a pound and Copper River sockeye premium portions for $29.95 a pound.
Cordova processors Sena Sea Seafoods and Drifters Fish were still taking online orders for this season’s salmon catch.
Prince William Sound fishermen delivered another approximate 11,000 silvers to processors over the past week, bringing the preliminary total to 361,000 fish – according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game’s Preliminary Alaska Commercial Salmon Harvest report on Sept. 23. To date, about 161,000 of those cohos were harvested in the Prince William Sound general seine fishery and another 148,000 in the Copper River drift fishery.
The ADF&G blue sheet showed a total of 48.8 million salmon harvested in Prince William Sound to date – including 42.6 million humpies, 4.6 million chum, 1.2 million sockeye, and 4,000 Chinooks.
Prince William Sound general seine fishermen have brought in more than 36 million humpies, and the Prince William Sound hatchery sector with 6.3 million humpies. The highest number of chum catches were in the Montague District, with nearly 2 million delivered to processors to date. Commercial Chinook harvests were only in the Copper River drift fishery.
ADF&G has put the preliminary statewide commercial salmon harvest to date at a total of nearly 187 million fish – including 113.7 pink, 52 million sockeye, 18.5 million chum, 2.4 million coho and 170,000 kings.
