The arrival of herring at Sitka Sound signals the start of spring in Alaska, but the fishery that began there on March 22 has attracted little notice or interest.
Roughly 2,740 tons of herring (6 million pounds) were harvested through March 25 on an allowable harvest of 36,720 short tons (73.44 million pounds).
There’s plenty of herring, which are valued for their roe, or eggs. However, interest in that high-end product has bottomed out over several decades to a level where most fishermen…
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Laine Welch has covered the Alaska fish beat for print and radio since 1988. She has also worked “behind the counter” at retail and wholesale seafood companies in Kodiak and Cape Cod. Click here to send her an email.
You can read more from Laine at alaskafish.news.
